Instead she will be locked away after being charged in her daughter's murder.
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Laquita Lewis allegedly sent a text message to her daughter's father and family saying she was so sorry, that she did "something bad" and that her little girl was going to heaven.
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Fredericka was just four years old, and her family said they had no idea Lewis was in a bad place.
"Why would you take the life of a child?" Fredricka's great aunt Paulette Lockridge said. "Your own child? But any child? How could you go and take a child's life like that? I don't understand it, honestly, I don't understand it."
Court records show back in November, Lewis had threatened to kill her 16-year-old son.
The 34-year-old mother has three other children, besides Fredricka.
Child protective services tells ABC13 they have investigated her in the past, though they wouldn't get into details.
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Family said she does not have custody of her other kids.
The vigil is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the apartments at 5635 Timber Creek Place, where Fredricka died on Sunday.
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