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The little boy,
who was not identified, beat one-year-old Kelci Devine Lewis to
death last month because she would not stop crying, said Lt.
Sean Edwards, Birmingham police spokesman. The boy is in the
care of the state's child welfare agency, the Department of
Human Resources, Edwards said.
"This is by far one of the saddest cases that I've witnessed
since I became a police officer," Edwards said during a news
conference, broadcast on the local Fox news station.
Edwards said the eight-year-old got "extremely agitated" because
the baby refused to stop crying, and committed "violent acts."
The child was found dead in her crib the next morning, on
October 11.
The mother of the toddler, Katerra Lewis, 26, was charged with
manslaughter.
The boy was the oldest of six children left alone as his mother,
who has not been charged, and Lewis went out, Edwards said. The
mothers and children all lived together.
"You have an adult mother who had the audacity to leave her
one-year-old in the custody with several other children," said
Edwards. The other children ranged in age from two to eight.
Lewis' attorney, Emory Anthony, could not immediately be reached
for comment.
(Reporting by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
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