Kimberley Mills, the mother of a 10-year-old boy charged with torturing her 10-year-old son to death, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday, and will now be a key witness in the death penalty case against her former boyfriend, Andre D. Walker.
Kimberley Mills pleaded no contest to being a principal to first-degree murder and three counts of aggravated child abuse, which included her son Amir, who was 8 at the time of the crime.
“Miss Mills has asked me to let the court know she loves her sons very, very much,” Assistant Public Defeder Morris Carranza told Circuit Judge Cary Rada. “The most important reason is to prevent her son, Amir, from being retraumatized by testifying against her.”
There was “a number of reasons” she pleaded no contest, Carranza told Lake & Sumter Style on Thursday…