Wilmer Fernandez lowered his head. Aixa Rodriquez wept after the verdict was delivered, but prosecutors suggested in court it was Casper who really suffered.
A Sumter County couple found guilty of third-degree murder, manslaughter and child abuse in the death of a 2-year-old strangled by a pet python was sentenced to prison Wednesday afternoon. They each received 12 years.
The Associated Press A Tampa-area woman whose 9-month-old son drowned while left unattended in a bathtub will serve five years probation. Hillsborough Circuit Court Judge William Fuente sentenced 23-year-old Katrina Lynn Brooks on Friday. She faced a maximum of five years in prison after being found guilty of child neglect in the 2007 death of her son.
A former Polk County elementary school principal was sentenced to prison today after being convicted on child pornography charges. Stelmack was sentenced to five years in state prison, 10 years of probation, and was sentenced as a sex offender.
BARTOW | Two more teenage girls accused in the videotaped beating of a former Mulberry High School cheerleader were sentenced Wednesday. April Cooper, 15, received two years of juvenile probation, while Kayla Hassall, 16, received one year of probation.
Staff reports A Palmetto man is headed to prison to serve a life sentence after he was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his longtime girlfriend in 2007.
A 22-year-old Lake Alfred man was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. Circuit Judge Ellen S. Masters also ordered Mariano Cruz must serve nine years of sex offender probation.
