A Murrayville woman has been indicted in the death of her 6-month-old son, whose body was found last summer in an Alabama motel room freezer.
The Dothan Eagle reported Friday that 36-year-old Amanda Gail Oakes is charged with manslaughter and corpse abuse.
According to the newspaper reports, Oakes' attorney has asked for a bond reduction for his client so she can return to Georgia to spend the holidays with her family. When Oakes was arrested in June, Houston County Judge Benjamin Lewis set the bond amount on the manslaughter charge at $250,000; Oakes also has a $150,000 bond set on the abuse of a corpse charge. A Dec. 6 bond hearing was canceled after Oakes was indicted.
The father of the baby, 28-year-old Carlton James Mathis of Hall County, was arrested on a murder warrant June after the baby's body was found.
The baby, Curtis James Oakes, died while being cared for by Mathis. The mother told investigators she and Mathis placed her son's body in the freezer of a Dothan motel room when the smell became unbearable.
Investigators found the body in the freezer after the couple was arrested. Police said it had been there for several days.
Read background about the case in this AccessWDUN article from June 6, 2018.
