An Indiana woman who starved her three-week-old daughter to death was sentenced to life in prison last Thursday after pleading guilty to first-degree murder, according to multiple reports.
Before she pleaded guilty, Ruby Stephens, 26, was scheduled to stand trial in April in the December 2014 death of her newborn daughter, the Lakeland Ledger reports.
On Dec. 23, 2014, Stephens, her husband, Roy Stephens, 51, and her three children were traveling from their home in Indiana to Florida to visit family for the holidays, according to the paper. (Roy Stephens was convicted in December of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child.
Before she pleaded guilty, Ruby Stephens, 26, was scheduled to stand trial in April in the December 2014 death of her newborn daughter, the Lakeland Ledger reports.
On Dec. 23, 2014, Stephens, her husband, Roy Stephens, 51, and her three children were traveling from their home in Indiana to Florida to visit family for the holidays, according to the paper. (Roy Stephens was convicted in December of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child.
- 1/30/2018
- by Harriet Sokmensuer
- PEOPLE.com
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