The mother whose 3-year-old froze to death in a wooded area says she accepts responsibility for what happened.
29-year-old Uriah Ridge pleaded guilty in a Douglas County courtroom and was sentenced to life with parole.
“And I will sentence you to count one, to felony murder, life,” Superior Court Judge Deah Warren told Ridge.
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Before Judge Warren sentenced Ridge she expressed how there were opportunities to avoid what happened.
“It is with profound sadness that this is where we had to be,” she said.
The judge was referring to Prosecutor Victoria Hicks saying that two years before the death of Ridge’s 3-year-old daughter, police say an intoxicated Ridge slapped and beat her 7-year-old son at the Thunderzone bowling alley.
Witnesses say she also dropped her 3-year-old.
Still, Ridge was allowed to keep her children.
Hicks said in court Ridge was high on cocaine and marijuana back in January when she kept her 3-year-old and 7-year-old children in a wooded area at the Foxhall Resort for 11 hours.