A 24-year-old woman in Michigan will spend the rest of her life behind bars for killing her friend’s 23-month-old toddler while babysitting him, throwing the boy against the wall and causing him to suffer a fatal head injury.
Macomb County Circuit Judge Diane M. Druzinski on Tuesday ordered Kimora Launmei Hodges to serve life without parole in a state correctional facility for the 2022 slaying of young Kyrie Starks, authorities announced.
A jury in July deliberated for just two hours before finding Hodges guilty on one count of felony murder and one count of first-degree child abuse. Specifically, Druzinski sentenced Hodges to life on the murder charge plus an additional 15 to 40 years on the child abuse charge…