Grandmother guilty of starving four-year-old

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2009-10-01 16:56

Story here. Excerpt:

'A grandmother and an aunt pleaded guilty on Tuesday to starving to death a four-year-old boy who weighed less than nine kilograms when he was found last year at his home in central Mississippi.

Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon accepted capital murder pleas from Austin Watkins' grandmother, Janice Mowdy, 43, and aunt, 22-year-old Stephanie Bell.

In exchange for the guilty pleas, the judge sentenced the women to life in prison. They could have faced the death penalty if a jury had convicted them.'

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Ed. note: Reported in an Australian paper, but the crime referred to herein occurred in the US.

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