Palm Beach County grand jury has indicted 32-year-old Naikishia Williams for capital murder following the harrowing death of her 7-year-old daughter, Nia Williams, who succumbed to blunt force injuries in late April.
The child’s death has reignited urgent calls for reform in Florida’s child protection system, as court records detail a pattern of abuse and multiple missed opportunities to save the young girl.
According to the Riviera Beach Police Department, officers were dispatched to a residence on April 28 after receiving a report of an unresponsive child. Nia was rushed to St. Mary’s Medical Center, where doctors discovered she had a lacerated liver and was in renal failure. She was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. The medical examiner later determined that Nia’s cause of death was homicide by blunt force trauma to the abdomen…