Attorney, Lehigh County DA speak out, as woman who helped her boyfriend kill her mother asks for commuted sentence

U. MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. – March 2015, after the body of 54-year-old Cheryl Silvonek is found in a shallow grave, the case against her daughter 14-year-old Jamie Silvonek begins.

Text messages between Silvonek and her 20-year-old boyfriend Caleb Barnes reveal that after Cheryl Silvonek tried to break them up because of their age difference, the couple acted together to stab and strangle her to death in the driveway of the Silvonek’s Upper Macungie Township home.

Silvonek was sentenced as an adult to 35 years to life…

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