SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The Supreme Court of Georgia has upheld the convictions of Trever Andre Foster , who is serving life in prison without parole for the 2012 death of 3-year-old Elisha Axson Jones in Wayne County.
He was 23 at the time of his arrest, and the mug shot we have of Foster is from 2012.
That 3-year-old was his girlfriend’s son, and died at the hospital from his injuries. You can find his obituary here .
Foster was convicted in 2013 of felony murder and first-degree cruelty to children after Elisha was found covered in 81 bruises, cuts, and abrasions, along with a fatal head injury.
Some of these injuries were older and in some stage of healing, but many were acute. Elisha also had swelling of his brain and bleeding inside his skull, which the medical examiner testi