California Mother Sentenced After Urging 8-year-old Daughter to Run Under Freight Train That Killed Her
Child death
A California woman will spend the next six years in prison after her daughter’s 2018 death, a Fresno judge ruled Tuesday. Despite an emotional plea for a probation sentence, Judge Heather Mardel Jones, unconvinced by Joy Collins’ downplaying her responsibility in her daughter’s death, sentenced her to six years behind bars for child abuse and …