Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr. and his wife, Natalie Sumiko Brothwell, who were convicted of brutally murdering their two eldest children and forcing their young siblings to view the bodies, were sentenced Monday.
The gruesome events unfolded on Nov. 29, 2020, the DA’s Office says, when Taylor, 39, and Brothwell, 49, fatally stabbed two of their young children, Maliaka, 13, and Maurice Jr., 12, in their Lancaster home on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
After the murders, the parents forced their two younger children, who were 8 and 9 at the time, to view the bodies and then confined them to a room, starving them for several days…