A mother in Georgia was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of killing her two young sons by putting them in the oven and turning it on.

On Friday, Lamora Williams was found guilty of 14 charges, including murder, in the October 2017 deaths of her sons, 2-year-old Ke-Yaunte Penn and 1-year-old Ja’Karter Penn. Daily Mail report.

The 24-year-old mother was sentenced to life imprisonment with an additional 35 years without the possibility of parole.

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Authorities began investigating Williams after she called 911 and claimed to have found the children dead in her Atlanta apartment when she returned home from work.

According to the arrest warrant, Williams told officers he found the oven above Ja’Karter’s head and found Ke-Yaunte lying on the ground with severe head trauma.

“When I walked in, my youngest son was lying on the stove with his head in the middle, my other son was lying on the floor with his brain in the middle,” Williams said during the 911 call. “I don’t know what to do. “I just came home from work,” he said.

A third child, who was three years old at the time, was also found unharmed in the apartment.

Williams initially claimed the children were with a caregiver at the time of their deaths and maintained his innocence. However, investigators determined that she had put the children in the oven the night before calling 911.

Jameel Penn, the children’s father, told authorities: Georgia mother He video called her after the incident.

He claimed that during the interview, he saw his sons motionless on the ground and immediately contacted the police.

“I just received a call from my child’s mother: I have…two dead babies; my sons died in an apartment,” Penn said while calling 911. “He video-called me and I saw it. I really think they’re dead.”

In an interview in 2017 WSB-TVPenn described the scene as “like a real horror movie.”

The autopsy revealed that the children’s heads were found inside an overturned oven. The coroner’s report stated that the injuries were caused by “dry heat and prolonged exposure”, contradicting police claims that the children were burned alive.

“These thermal changes appear to be entirely due to dry heat and prolonged exposure to heat,” the coroner wrote. “It takes a lot of time to achieve this degree.”

Although Williams maintained his innocence, prosecutors relied on the Atlanta Police Department’s findings.

The jury found him guilty of all counts, including murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children, concealing the death of another, and making false statements.

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The Georgia mother who was sentenced reportedly had a history of mental illness, which her mother attributed to the death of Williams’ father when she was 19 and the stress of being a single mother of four children.

Williams’ mother told FOX 5 He said he believed his daughter “ran away” after leaving Penn.