Plea agreement reached for Rush County mom after 7-year-old son dies in June 2025 house fire

Mother pleads guilty to neglect after 7-year-old son was killed in raging house fire

Kirstin D. Bowers will be sentenced to 17 years in prison for the grisly June tragedy

Plea agreement reached for Rush County mom after 7-year-old son dies in June 2025 house fire

As part of the plea agreement, Kirstin Bowers, of Shelbyville, agreed to plead guilty to neglect of a dependent resulting in death.

Indiana mom pleads guilty to neglect after son, 7, dies in house fire

An Indiana mother will spend 16 years behind bars as part of a plea deal for letting her 7-year-old son die in a fire at their Shelbyville home. Kirstin D. Bowers, 31, reached the deal with prosecutors Monday, nine months after a towering June blaze engulfed her house and left her son — little David Jr. — dead inside, WTHR reported. Three of her other kids escaped, but police arrested Bowers within a month after her husband and neighbors both re…