BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - An infant born prematurely in a violent attack on his mother 10 months ago is learning to walk, beginning to talk, and bears a bittersweet resemblance to the slain woman.
Yesterday was a sad but important date for the boy’s family: His mother’s killer pleaded guilty but mentally ill to cutting him from the womb and leaving the woman dead beside a rural road.
Prosecutors say Jamie Stice, 21, was shocked with a stun gun before having her wrists and throat cut last April. Kathy Coy of Morgantown faces life in prison without parole at her sentencing March 1.
Before yesterday’s hearing, the boy’s grandmother, Jeannie Stice, showed off a photo of her chubby, smiling grandson atop his father’s shoulders. Isaiah Allen Stice Reynolds lives with his father and is said to be thriving despite being born about five weeks early....
Coy, who had shown little emotion in previous hearings, cried and shook her head yesterday as a prosecutor read the evidence against her. Her slight, high-pitched voice shook with emotion as she entered her plea to murder, capital kidnapping, and kidnapping. She wore an orange jail jumpsuit and leg irons.
Police had said Coy and Stice were Facebook friends....
That's really making me frown on Facebook.
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