> Boy's great-aunt sentenced to 36 years in prison for beating him to death
Boy's great-aunt sentenced to 36 years in prison for beating him to death
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A woman who admitted to beating her 8-year-old great-nephew to death with a wooden back scrubber was sentenced to 36 years in prison on Monday afternoon in Denver District Court.
Susan Baffour, 63, was also sentenced to five years of mandatory probation. She had faced 16 to 48 years in prison after pleading guilty to child abuse resulting in death last month. She agreed to that charge in a plea deal that let her avoid being tried for first-degree murder.
But Dametrious Wilson's death, Denver District Judge Alex Myers said, "is not a 16-year sentence kind of case."
Read more: https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/dametrious-wilson-death-susan-baffour-sentenced/73-16dab98f-414d-4415-a674-0a7da1b77049
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