VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — The adoptive parents convicted in the starving death of a 15-year-old boy in Washington state have been sentenced to decades in prison.

Judge Suzan Clark last week sentenced Felicia L. Adams to 35 years in prison and Jesse C. Franks to 30 years in the 2020 death of Karreon Franks. The couple also had been convicted on charges of criminal mistreatment of Karreon’s brothers, The Columbian newspaper reported.

Attorneys for Adams and Franks said they planned to appeal the convictions and sentences.

Clark called what happened to Karreon “one of the saddest things I have seen in 37 years.” She said she had never before returned to her chambers after a trial and “had all of the jurors in tears because of what they had been through.” An alternate juror complained of being unable to sleep.

Adams, 54, and Franks, 58, were convicted by a jury in Clark County Superior Court in October.

Prosecutors raise charges to murder for mother suspected of abuse

A photograph of Jeong-in is displayed outside a Seoul court on Wednesday. Her adoptive mother is now on trial for murder over allegations that abuse of the infant led to death. (Photo by Grace Moon)

GRACE MOON, Contributing writerJanuary 17, 2021 03:30 JST

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Brian O’Callaghan, the former Marine and National Security Agency division chief, who pleaded guilty to killing his 3-year-old adopted son, was sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge.

O’Callaghan, of Damascus, Maryland, pleaded guilty last November to child abuse resulting in death and faced up to 40 years in prison. On Tuesday, Judge John Debelius handed down a 20-year sentence but suspended eight years from O’Callaghan’s sentence upfront. He will also get credit for time served — about 2 and 1/2 years.

Maye, who was Darnell’s legal guardian, is charged with aggravated murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence in his death.

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Casey Parsons the mother convicted of killing her 13-year-old adopted daughter, Erica Parsons, was released Friday from federal custody for fraud charges, according to online prison records.

Casey Parsons (Rowan County Sheriff’s Office)

However, Parsons will remain incarcerated. In 2019, she was sentenced to life in prison without parole on a state charge when she pleaded guilty to killing Erica.

According to her husband, Sandy, he and his wife buried their adopted daughter’s body in a shallow grave in Chesterfield County, S.C., in December 2011.

More than a year and a half went by before Erica was reported missing by her adoptive brother in 2013.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) -

A Dent County woman who pleaded guilty to a criminal charge in the death of her adopted daughter in 2020 will spend the rest of her life in prison.

ROSEVILLE - Prosecutors have filed murder and torture charges against the parents of a 9-year-old adopted boy after he died on February 2. 

The Placer County District Attorney filed murder, torture, and child abuse and endangerment charges against 37-year-old Kimberly Blakley and 37-year-old Cory Blakley on Friday in connection with the 9-year-old's death. 

According to a criminal complaint, Kimberly is facing a special allegation of great bodily injury, saying the boy became unconscious due to a brain injury and suffered paralysis. Cory faces a special allegation of willful harm or injury resulting in the death of the 9-year-old. 

The criminal complaint also says Kimberly and Cory are facing an additional six counts of child abuse, neglect or endangering health. The complaint alleges the victims of the six counts are ages 13, 12, 11, 8, 7 and 6.  

Kimberly appeared in court where she could be heard and seen crying as the judge read off the charges. Cory's attorney said he refused to leave his jail cell.

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Sherin Mathews was first reported missing from her Texas home in October 2017, triggering a large search operation

A US father accused of killing his adopted three-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in jail after pleading guilty to a lesser charge.

US media said the unanimous verdict came after Wesley Mathews confessed to "injury of a child by omission".

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — After dozens of searches, scores of interviews, months of investigation, weeks of trial, and, lastly, a plea on the part of a defense attorney asking her client receive probation, the adoptive parents of Orrin and Orson West on Thursday were sentenced to life terms in prison.

Trezell and Jacqueline West, accused of killing the young boys three years ago, were sentenced to 15 years to life in prison plus four years.

As the Wests were sentenced, sniffling was heard from members of the audience, some of them biological family of Orrin, 4, and Orson, 3, others members of the public who have followed the case from the beginning.

Trezell West, 37, and Jacqueline West, 33, reported the boys missing in December 2020. Prosecutors say the couple killed them three months earlier and disposed of the bodies, then fabricated a tale of how the boys disappeared from their backyard, apparently kidnapped.

In May, they were found guilty of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty regarding Orrin. Jurors failed to reach verdicts on second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with Orson’s death. A guilty verdict for child cruelty was returned regarding Orson.