BRUNSWICK, Ga.—The ex-wife of a man charged with murder after their toddler son died in a hot SUV shed tears for her boy on the witness stand Monday while testifying that her former husband would not have left him to die on purpose.
Leanna Taylor told a jury she tried to be strong for Justin Ross Harris after learning on June 18, 2014, that their only child was dead after Harris left the boy in his car’s back seat all day after driving to his job in metro Atlanta.
“I knew he was never going to forgive himself,” Taylor testified, adding that she knew Harris didn’t leave their son intentionally.
Leanna Taylor testifies during a murder trial for her ex-husband Justin Ross Harris in Brunswick, Ga., on Oct. 31, 2016. AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool
