In August of 1979 Monica Sue Williams was just shy of her first birthday when she was raped and beaten by a man named Christopher Cooper. This precious little girl laid in her hospital bed fighting for her life for five days before losing her battle and died on August 21, 1979.

Monica’s mother, Becky Potter from Findlay, Ohio knew Cooper as he was her older son’s uncle and her ex-brother in law. She asked him to sit with Monica while she went to have a cup of coffee with a friend. She put Monica Sue down for a nap thinking she would stay sleeping until she got home. It still isn’t clear exactly what happened during the approximate 30 minutes Becky was gone. They only know that this baby suffered more in that brief time than most people suffer in a lifetime.

Christopher L. Cooper has sentenced the Becky Potter and family to a Life Sentence without Monica Sue Williams.