child cruelty case

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Baton Rouge judge labeled a 25-year-old woman "sinister and despicable" before sentencing her to 40 years in prison in a 2009 child cruelty case involving her then-20-month-old stepson. The Advocate reports an East Baton Rouge Parish jury deliberated just 15 minutes Oct...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A state district judge has vacated the four-year prison sentence for a woman accused of cruelty to her children and ordered a new trial. KPLC-TV reports Judge David Ritchie on Tuesday said Jasmine Stanley's case should be retried, in part, because of ineffective assistance of counsel...