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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Toilet Training Horror: Nancy Says “Rot In Hell!” as Mom Gets Life Without Parole | Crime Alert 6AM 12.17.25

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A judge hands down a life sentence after a young child dies from repeated beatings tied to toilet training, with prosecutors saying the injuries were survivable if help had been called sooner. Police probe a possible hate crime after gunfire erupts outside a home decorated for Hanukkah, leaving a family shaken and investigators searching for suspects who vanished into the night. Federal agents move in just in time to stop a New Year’s Eve bombing plot, arresting suspects in the desert as authorities say explosive devices were already being prepared. Drew Nelson reports.

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0:00.0

Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. A Georgia mom sentenced to life for beating

0:05.4

her four-year-old little boy, Anthony Weiss, to death because he wasn't potty trained. Well,

0:11.3

whose fault is that? A 13-year-old witness tells authorities Anthony's mom, Sophia Williams,

0:17.6

whipped Anthony into an, quote, unresponsive state.

0:22.1

Rot in hell, woman.

0:23.5

Straight out to Drew Nelson for more.

0:26.9

Nancy, a DeKalb County Superior Court judge, Senate Sophia Williams, 43, to life without

0:32.7

the possibility of parole plus 10 years after her four-year-old son died from head injuries that followed repeated

0:38.9

beatings tied to him not being potty trained. A jury convicted her in August of malice murder,

0:44.7

two counts of felony murder, four counts of first degree cruelty to children, and three counts

0:49.5

of aggravated battery in the death of her son, Anthony Weiss. Officers responded to an apartment on

0:55.2

Tregeny Drive in Decatur, March 6th of 2022, for a child who was not breathing. First responders found

1:01.7

Anthony lying on the living room floor with no heartbeat. Medics noticed, quote, new and old bruising

1:07.4

over the child's entire body, and he was taking a children's health care of Atlanta,

1:11.8

but was pronounced dead there. Williams told officers that Anthony was not potty trained,

1:17.0

and she disciplined him, quote, by striking him with her hand, a house slipper, a purse strap,

1:22.3

and a charging cord, when he did not listen or went without using the toilet. She also claimed that he had hit his head the

1:29.1

week before. A 13-year-old in the home reported that Williams, quote, whooped Anthony the day before his

1:35.4

death. The witness said he, quote, appeared to be dizzy and fell to the floor unresponsive. Williams

1:40.9

placed Anthony on her bed and threw water on him, reviving him briefly before he became unresponsive again.

1:47.0

His movements throughout the night were only involuntary.

1:50.0

During that time, she searched on her phone for remedy for concussion and coma symptoms and causes.

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