BEATRICE, Neb. (KOLN) – A Beatrice woman avoided jail time in a case related to her four-month-old’s death.
A judge sentenced 28-year-old Ashlen Zitel on Wednesday to serve six years probation on child abuse and sexual assault charges after her boyfriend suffocated her baby to death in August, court records allege.
Zitel was arrested alongside 27-year-old Austin Meyn after the four-month-old boy was found not breathing at their home on Aug. 15…