SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Leilani Simon, the woman accused of killing her 20-month old son Quinton Simon, is on trial in Chatham County.

The jury will decide Simon’s fate on a 19 count indictment which accuses Simon of malice murder, felony murder, concealing the death of another, and making false statements.

You can watch our previous trial livestream below:

Jury deliberation

Jury deliberation began around 3 p.m. on Thursday.

Around 5 p.m., Judge Tammy Stokes allowed the jury to leave for the night. Deliberations will continue Friday morning at 9 a.m.

Closing arguments

Closing arguments began Thursday in the Leilani Simon trial.

After nearly two weeks of testimony from roughly 40 different witnesses, the case will soon be in the hands of the jury.

The defense argued Wednesday for a direct verdict, saying there’s not enough evidence for the jury to consider Simon’s charges, which include murder, malice murder, concealing death and making false statements in the death and disappearance of her toddler Quinton Simon.

Judge Tammy Stokes ultimately sided with the prosecution, meaning the jury will decide Simon’s fate on all 19 charges in the indictment.

Court resumed Thursday morning at 9 a.m., with the judge and both sides solidifying the verdict form that will be given to the jury when they enter the deliberation room.

Closing arguments began at 10 a.m.

In the state’s closing, prosecutor Tim Dean focused on the evidence presented throughout the trial, which he said points toward a guilty Simon.

The prosecution walked the jury through Simon’s actions beginning the night before Quinton was reported missing and ending the day of her arrest.

While the prosecution must prove Simon’s guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt,” prosecutor Dean mentioned they didn’t have to prove motive.

“People do stuff and it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense and that they probably wish they hadn’t done it. So we don’t have to prove motive. But it’s under these circumstances that she does something unspeakable. And that is why she could not bring herself to it it or tell the truth about it. Because it’s an unspeakable thing for a mother to kill her child,” said Dean.

Dean spent almost an hour and a half recapping for the jury what he says eight days of testimony proved - Leilani Simon’s life, and her relationship with boyfriend Daniel Youngkin, was in turmoil.

The prosecution’s case is that Simon was having an affair with her drug dealer and on the night of October 4, went to see him for consolation after a fight with Danny. When he wasn’t there, she went home, got high on cocaine and Percocet, and snapped, killing little Quinton who she had disdain for due to a poor relationship with his father.

She then disposed of his body at the Azalea Mobile Home Plaza dumpsters. The next day, reporting it to police, which started almost two months of Simon lying to them about her story.

The defense, however, not disputing the fact that Simon repeatedly lied to police, but at times, pointing the finger at Youngkin and zeroing in on the lack of physical evidence.

Simon’s defense team urged jurors to put their emotions aside.

Attorney Martin Hilliard said prosecutors have not met their burden of proof and said prosecutors overlooked other possibilities.

He said there are a number of ways Quinton could have died that don’t point to Simon’s guilt.

“That‘s a lack of evidence. It doesn’t cut either way. And here’s the thing ladies and gentleman about the burden of proof and circumstantial evidence- when there’s a tie in the evidence like that, the tie goes to the defendant every single time,” said Martin Hilliard, Leilani Simon’s defense attorney.

“If you get wrapped around the axle on that, you go back there and you say, ‘Well, gosh, how can we ever-?’ No. You are getting played in the worst way. You are getting absolutely played. If you do that, you are bringing her plan to completion. You’re telling her, ‘Hey, great job. You did a good enough job on the cover up that you get to skate,’” Dean said.

Jenny Parker, Assistant District Attorney with the Chatham County District Attorney’s Office gave a rebuttal closing argument.

Parker gave an emotional and scathing plea for jurors to return a guilty verdict. She said all the evidence points to Simon, accusing the mother of being so desperate for attention, spurred on by drug use and personal stressors, that she killed her toddler, Quinton and tried to cover it all up.

In that closing she said, “Leilani Simon is not a mother. She is a monster, and I do not use that word lightly. What this woman did in this case is horrific and she is absolutely a monster.”

You can view a timeline of events in the case below: