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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA western Indiana woman has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the neglect death of her malnourished 8-month-old daughter, who weighed just 11 pounds when she died.
Makenzie Shultz was also ordered to spend four years on supervised probation following her release from prison.
A Tippecanoe County jury convicted the Lafayette woman in September on seven charges, including neglect resulting in death and failure to report a dead body.
A coroner found that Shultz’s daughter, Briley Giroux, was emaciated, dehydrated and malnourished, and had likely died several hours before she was brought to a hospital in November 2015.
The baby’s father, Chad A. Giroux Jr., pleaded guilty in January to several charges, including neglect of a dependent resulting in death. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
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