Two Florida parents are headed to prison for more than a decade after their 11-month-old daughter, who hadn’t been fed for days, died weighing just 13 pounds.
Lake County Judge Cary F. Rada sentenced 27-year-old Margaret Elizabeth Lehman to 13 years behind bars and 30-year-old Mark Edward Brittian Jr. to 13 years and three months in prison, the Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office said in a press release . Lehman and Brittian pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the death of Marcelyn Brittian.
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