Jurors found a New Jersey woman guilty for the murder of her 23-month-old child.

Twenty-eight-year-old Nakira M. Griner not only beat her toddler son Daniel Griner Jr to death but also dismembered his tiny body, burned the remains, and then buried him in the backyard of her home.

In a statement released by the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office, jurors convicted Griner on Wednesday, January 4, of various charges, including first-degree murder, desecration of human remains, tampering with evidence, and false public alarm.

The prosecutor wrote that during deliberations by the jury, they found that the victim was less than 14 years, a factor that requires the mother to get the mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Griner’s sentencing will be held on February 21, four years after the murder.

Griner called 911 multiple times on February 8, 2019. She told the dispatcher that a man had attacked her on the street while she and her son Daniel went to a local deli to get food. A  news outlet reported that Griner told the police she was carrying the child when the attacker pushed her to the ground and started to kick her several times. She said he took Daniel and the stroller and disappeared.

In one of the 911 calls that Griner made, the dispatcher had trouble understanding what she was saying. The dispatcher told her she had trouble understanding her because she was crying, telling her to take a deep breath and calm down so she could understand.

Griner told the dispatcher she was hiding, then ended the call without explanation. When the dispatcher called back, Griner told her the made-up story about the attack.

Over time, as police searched for the missing toddler, Griner’s story began to change. Police put her through a polygraph test which she failed. Police decided to search her home.

A sniffer dog led investigators to where the boy’s body had been buried. They recovered his dismembered body, which had been burned and stuffed in his mother’s bag before being buried.

According to a prosecutor, the boy’s body was burned so badly that it was hard for authorities to know what had happened to him.

The County Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy and determined that the toddler had been beaten to death. The child also had several bone fractures.

Griner initially told investigators that Daniel accidentally fell down the stairs but during a phone call in jail, she said she burned him to cover up the bruises on his body. She eventually admitted hitting the little boy because he refused to eat and wouldn’t listen to her.

She said she hit the boy so hard that his face was bruised. After hitting him, she did not seek medical help but put him in his stroller and left him alone.

Griner’s attorney, Jill Cohen, said that her client did dismember her son, burn him and bury him, but prosecutors could not prove that she was responsible for his death. The jury saw through that argument and found the mother guilty.