A woman who claimed demons told her to set her baby afire was yesterday found guilty of murder as jurors rejected her insanity defense.

The jury wasted no time and returned the unanimous verdict against Phillipa Marshall, 41, for the murder of one-year-old Philicia in less than an hour.

After receiving the jury’s verdict, Turner revoked the bail of the mother of two and remanded her into custody until September 19 for the penalty phase of her trial.

There was no dispute that Marshall grabbed the sleeping child and doused her with gasoline before setting her afire in a locked bedroom on December 28, 2017, at her home in Faith Gardens, and that the child died from complications from the burn wounds on February 14, 2018.

But her lawyer, Bjorn Ferguson, argued that she should not be found criminally liable because she is mentally ill.

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