{"id":3536,"date":"2026-03-07T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:55:30","slug":"boy-who-watched-mom-drown-sister-tells-full-story-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=3536","title":{"rendered":"Boy who watched mom drown sister tells full story years later"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AJ Hutto, now 24, has spoken publicly for the first time in nearly two decades after testifying as a child against his biological mother, Amanda Lewis, who was convicted of murdering his seven-year-old sister, Adrianna.<\/p>\n

At age seven, AJ witnessed the incident and testified in a Florida court in 2008 that his mother drowned his sister in a backyard swimming pool. He presented a drawing and described how his mother held Adrianna\u2019s head underwater. He later stated he was not coached and stood by his testimony.<\/p>\n

Amanda Lewis was convicted of first-degree murder and child abuse, receiving life imprisonment plus 30 years. She maintains her innocence, claiming Adrianna\u2019s death was accidental.<\/p>\n

After the trial, AJ was adopted, became a firefighter, married, and cut contact with Lewis, describing his childhood as traumatic and abusive. Meanwhile, Lewis continues to fight to overturn her conviction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AJ Hutto, now 24, has spoken publicly for the first time in nearly two decades after testifying as a child against his biological mother, Amanda […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}