A woman who pled guilty earlier this year in the death of her child had her motion to withdraw that plea denied last week in Liberty County Superior Court.

Shelly Perry, who pled guilty on March 11 to the 2024 death of her 6-yearold daughter Aniyah, filed a motion in September to withdraw her guilty plea. He submitted an amended motion on September 22.

Judge Jay Stewart denied the motion Monday.

In conjunction with her earlier guilty plea, Perry was sentenced to life without parole in connection with Aniyah’s death. Perry pled guilty to 11 charges.

Her then boyfriend Brandon Robinson entered guilty pleas in September on six charges.

Robinson entered guilty pleas on six charges. His guilty plea on the top charge, malice murder, led to it being reduced to murder in the second degree.

Robinson also pled guilty to cruelty to children in the first degree, cruelty to children in the second degree, false statements, tampering with evidence and concealing the death of another. He was sentenced to a total of 40 years between incarceration and probation.

Robinson was indicted for not providing sustenance and proper medical care to the child, who was 6 years old at the time of her death.

Perry called authorities on May 1, 2023, to report her daughter was in her bed and unresponsive. She told officers responding to her Saunders Avenue home that she had put the child to sleep that afternoon but when she went to wake her daughter about four hours later, the child was unresponsive.

Detectives later testified that Perry told them the girl died in another state, and the couple brought Aniyah back to Hinesville. Security camera footage showed Perry and her boyfriend, Robinson, bringing the already deceased child, wrapped in a blanket, into their apartment.

Perry currently is housed in the McRae Women’s Facility. Robinson remains in the Liberty County Jail awaiting placement in the state system.