{"id":1239,"date":"2025-08-01T15:58:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:58:02","slug":"boy-who-saw-his-mom-drown-his-sister-shares-the-full-story-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Boy who saw his mom drown his sister shares the full story years later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/15-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/15-1.jpg 526w, https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/15-1-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A man has come forward nearly 20 years after delivering haunting testimony as a child that helped convict his biological mother for the murder of his sister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AJ Hutto was only seven years old when he testified in a Florida courtroom in 2008, describing how he witnessed his mother, Amanda Lewis, drown his seven-year-old sister, Adrianna, in their backyard pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now 24, AJ\u2014whose name has been changed for his privacy\u2014has spoken publicly for the first time since that trial, telling <em>The Daily Mail<\/em>, \u201cOne hundred percent guilty. I still stand by every word I said.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His testimony, along with a drawing he made, was pivotal in the case, according to <em>The Daily Mail<\/em>. The sketch showed three figures near a pool and was labeled with phrases like \u201cShe did\u201d and \u201cTo Bad,\u201d which AJ explained meant \u201cshe died\u201d and \u201cit was scary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the stand, AJ told the jury that his \u201cmomma\u201d had pushed Adrianna\u2019s head underwater, saying: \u201cShe was covering her face with her hand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite his young age, Judge Allen Register ruled that AJ was a credible witness. Though some later questioned whether he had been coached, AJ insists his account was truthful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really don\u2019t think I was influenced or told what to say,\u201d he said. \u201cI just repeated exactly what I saw, word for word.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has come forward nearly 20 years after delivering haunting testimony as a child that helped convict his biological mother for the murder of his sister. AJ Hutto was only seven years old when he testified in a Florida courtroom in 2008, describing how he witnessed his mother, Amanda Lewis, drown his seven-year-old sister,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/?p=1239\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Boy who saw his mom drown his sister shares the full story years later&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}