A Colorado mother who pleaded responsible final month to abusing her 7-year-old daughter to demise and mendacity about her well being to rake in charity donations will spend 16 years behind bars, a choose dominated Wednesday.
Decide Patricia Herron issued the sentence after Kelly Turner pled responsible to little one abuse ensuing within the 2017 demise of the lady, Olivia Gant, and to charitable fraud and theft.
Kelly Renee Turner, 43, is charged with murdering her daughter Olivia Gant, 7.
(Douglas County Sheriff’s Workplace/Heflebower Funeral Dwelling, Littleton, Colo.)
Earlier expenses of first-degree homicide, try and affect a public servant, and forgery had been dropped as a part of an settlement with prosecutors.
Authorities have mentioned Turner repeatedly lied to docs about Olivia’s medical historical past. Turner’s lies satisfied medical professionals to carry out surgical procedures and fill prescriptions for sicknesses that she didn’t have – gaining sympathy from tv information tales and charitable foundations.
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Prosecutors mentioned the quantity of the theft from charity was between $100,000 and $1 million.
Kelly Turner claimed her daughter Olivia Gant suffered from a uncommon illness.
(Denver Police Division)
The lady had acquired pointless surgical procedures and drugs up till her demise in Denver hospice care in 2017. The lady’s reason behind demise was first listed as an intestinal failure, however an post-mortem later discovered no proof of that situation.
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Authorities haven’t mentioned what killed her however, in keeping with an indictment, docs went together with Turner’s push to cease feeding her daughter.
Media protection confirmed 7-year-old Olivia Gant fulfilling a bucket record that included being a cop for a day.
(Denver Police Division)
Whereas Turner’s conduct raised suspicions alongside the best way, it was solely after Olivia died in hospice care in 2017 and Turner introduced one in every of her different two daughters to the identical hospital with bone ache that docs determined to take a more in-depth look.
The lady, 13, has not reported any further medical issues or complaints of ache since October 2018 and is in her grandparents’ custody. Turner’s eldest little one is an grownup.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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