Jason Hicks, District Attorney for Oklahoma District 6 which includes Caddo, Grady, Stephens and Jefferson Counties has filed a Bill of Particulars seeking the death penalty for Alysia Adams, one of the caretakers charged in 4-year-old Athena Brownfield’s death.
Court documents said Alysia confessed that Brownfield was beaten and killed in Cyril on Christmas in 2022 by her husband, Ivon Adams, who had his charge downgraded from first-degree murder to second-degree murder. He’s still charged with child neglect.
Brownfield was reported missing after a postal carrier found her older sister near the home, unsupervised.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said Brownfield’s body was found buried near the Adams’ former house between Rush Springs and Agawam in Grady County.
Alysia’s charges were upgraded from child neglect to first-degree murder at the end of 2023.
A new court document released by District Attorney Hicks said that based on the circumstances that Alysia “knowingly created a great risk of death to more than one person” and “that the death of Athena Brownfield was especially heinous”, Alysia should be punished by death.
Court documents show Brownfield’s biological mother, Jasmin Brownfield, left the two children in the Adams’ care in April 2021. She was arrested in 2023 for two counts of child neglect.
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