Jury finds Columbus woman guilty in 2024 killing of 5-year-old boy

Pammy Maye is accused of killing 5-year-old Darnell Taylor in February 2024.(Franklin County Jail)A jury found the Columbus woman who killed her 5-year-old foster child in 2024 guility of murder on Tuesday after a two-day trial.Pammy Maye, 51, was convicted of aggravated murder, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse. She killed Darnell Taylor and dumped his body in a sewer drain before fleeing to the Cleveland area. It was never in dispute whether Maye killed Taylor, but at the center of the trial was if Maye was mentally insane when she did so.Maye confessed her crimes to police on body-worn camera footage. She told police she suffocated Taylor with a plastic bag, wrapped his body in a sleeping bag and drove Taylor's body to a sewer drain, where she left him. Maye also told police she washed the bed sheets because Taylor urinated in the bed as he was dying.Maye told police she was frustrated with Taylor's behavior and the boy eating snacks in his bed.Maye confessed to her husb