Baby gabriel trial coverage

Johnson: "Yes, I did. I suffocated him. I suffocated him and he turned blue. And I put him in his diaper bag and I put him in the trash can. She told police that she'd given the boy to a unknown couple she met up with in San Antonio.

She said she did so under the direction of a woman named Tammi Smith. Johnson and Smith had met in June , when both women were waiting for the same flight in the Indianapolis airport.

Smith suggested to the young mother that she and her husband adopt Gabriel. Johnson said she called Smith that December to ask if the couple was still interested. This May, Smith was found guilty of forgery and conspiracy to interfere with Gabriel's custody.

She is still awaiting trial on these charges which could result in many, many years in custody. Tammi Smith, the would-be adoptive mother, was convicted on charges of forgery and conspiracy to commit custodial interference.

She served 30 days in jail with the potential for an additional 30 if she does not do well on probation; however, according to Maricopa County authorities, she has been a model inmate. For months, Logan McQueary had been caught up in a bitter custody dispute with the mother of his son, and then he received a shocking text message from her.

In a subsequent phone call, she told him she had killed their infant son, that she had suffocated him and thrown him out with the garbage. It was the day after Christmas, Though that chilling conversation played again and again on nightly news, haunting the residents of Tempe, Arizona, it did not lead to the immediate homicide charges against Elizabeth Johnson, the mother of baby Gabriel.

Johnson had fled, first to Texas, and finally to Florida where she was taken into custody. She told investigators she had taken the nine-month-old to give him up for adoption, that she gave Gabriel to a couple she did not know in a San Antonio park. They had even cared for the child for a week in December, but told police they gave the child back to Johnson since McQueary still had partial custody. They theorized that the Smiths may have been the couple who took baby Gabriel in that San Antonio park.

Tammi Smith was ultimately arrested under charges of forgery and conspiracy to commit custodial interference related to this case. She was convicted of these charges and sentenced to two day sentences. In a little bit of sentencing jigsaw, Smith started her first 30 days in custody immediately after sentencing, and she was released from custody on August 4.

If she does well on probation, the judge can decide not to impose the second day sentence. It has been more than two years since baby Gabriel went missing, and no trace of the child, who would be three years old by now, has been found. Without proof positive that the child has died, prosecutors are holding off on a homicide indictment against Johnson.

Instead, she was charged with various counts of kidnapping, custodial interference, and conspiracy to commit custodial interference. After a lengthy trial, Johnson was acquitted of the most serious charge — kidnapping — but convicted of the lesser offense of unlawful imprisonment as well as custodial interference and conspiracy to commit custodial interference. Logan McQueary: The father of the missing child, whom police are treating as the victim in this case.

Tammi Smith: a Tempe woman who was considering adopting baby Gabriel. Researchers found that Smith, who has two adopted children, was always looking for young mothers from whom she could adopt more children.

She used Myspace to solicit young military wives to give up their children, and she even approached pregnant women in public to ask if they were interested in adoption. Smith was sentenced to 30 days in jail for her involvement in this case after she was convicted of forgery and conspiracy to commit custodial interference. She has lthe [sic] most amazing details of Gods [sic] love, mercy and favor to tell you about. Our cats loved him and our dogs loved him.

He was just a sweet and beautiful baby boy. He was learning how to smile when we gave him up. FB Tweet More. You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.

Credit: Rachel McFarland. The couple was ecstatic when baby Gabriel was born at a. Credit: Courtesy Rachel McFarland. A medical examiner later determined that Gabriel died from head trauma. Gabriel in February All rights reserved. Close Sign in.