Army wife pleads guilty to fatally stabbing infant son in the neck at Georgia military base

A U.S. Army woman stationed astatine Fort Eisenhower successful Georgia awaits sentencing aft pleading blameworthy to the 2023 execution of her babe son, who was recovered stabbed to decease successful a ablution curtain.

April Evalyn Short, 31, of Fort Eisenhower, pleaded blameworthy to second-degree murder, according to a connection Tuesday from Tara M. Lyons, acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. 

As portion of the negotiated plea agreement, Short volition service 20 years successful prison, on with important fiscal penalties and 5 years of supervision aft her release, according to Lyons. There is nary parole successful the national system.

April Short pleaded blameworthy successful the fatal stabbing of her babe astatine Fort Eisenhower successful Augusta, Georgia. (Jefferson County Sheriff's Office)

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On the greeting of Nov. 15, 2023, astatine Fort Eisenhower, Short sent her husband, a U.S. Army unit sergeant, a bid of ominous texts with biblical references, according to tribunal documents.

Concerned astir the cryptic messages, helium went to their location connected station and recovered their 11-month-old babe bleeding from the neck, wrapped successful a ablution curtain successful the bathtub, according to filings.

The lad was aboriginal pronounced dormant astatine Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center.

The kid was fatally stabbed connected the Fort Eisenhower subject installation, formerly known arsenic Fort Gordon. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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The couple's 2 different children, ages 11 and 6, were successful a adjacent chamber astatine the clip of the killing, though Short allegedly told them, "don't travel into the bath due to the fact that it mightiness beryllium truly scary," according to tribunal documents.

Col. Dori Mitchell Franco, a U.S. Army doctor, determined the babe was stabbed and slashed aggregate times successful the cervix with 2 antithetic knives, 1 of which was serrated, according to an autopsy report.

Short allegedly told authorities pursuing her apprehension that the archetypal weapon was excessively dull, requiring the 2nd weapon, according to tribunal documents.

Soldiers march astatine Fort Eisenhower, formerly known arsenic Fort Gordon, successful Augusta, Georgia. (Michael Holahan /The Augusta Chronicle via AP)

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"The plea statement successful this disturbing lawsuit represents a hard but due solution to this tragic and shocking homicide," Lyons wrote successful the statement.

Short remains successful U.S. Marshals Service custody, and volition beryllium sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge J. Randal Hall aft a pre-sentence probe by U.S. Probation Services.

Paul Brown, peculiar cause successful complaint of FBI Atlanta said the parent "will present person 20 years to deliberation astir her heinous actions."

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"This plea cannot undo that calamity and loss, but brings different measurement of justness to those who knew and loved the kid during his abbreviated life," Brown wrote successful the statement.