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Originally Posted by SlingShot
State should of put Child Neglect as one of the charges. They could of got her very easy on that.
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Originally Posted by Havok
Wouldn't have mattered. The state tried to push the murder charges with the lying aspect and didn't even touch on any of the child abuse (which she was tried for) aspect of the case from what I remember. They wanted that murder conviction and nothing else.
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Originally Posted by Russell James
They did.
They charged her with Murder, Manslaughter, Aggravated Child Abuse, lying to the police...
The charges were accurate to the facts. The Grand Jury got it 100% right, the trial jurors are idiots.
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Child Neglect is different than the other charges. It would have been a lesser than the others, but still a felony. The fact that she didn't report her child missing or didn't know where she was for 31 days and admitted by her would have been enough to convict on that.