US EditionCouple Sentenced After ‘Torturing’ Children, One Child Sucked Insulation From Walls for Water, Prosecutors Say
Teachers noticed bruises and hunger at Kimper Elementary School before investigators found the children locked inside a boarded-up room, officials said.
- On Friday, a Pike Circuit Court judge sentenced Mary Hall and Jerome Norman to 20 years in prison after they entered blind guilty pleas for abusing three children in their care.
- Hall gained custody of her sister's children in 2018, moving to Pike County with Norman in 2023, where investigators discovered the children lived in a locked room with boarded windows.
- Teachers at Kimper Elementary School grew suspicious after a student returned from winter break with bruises, discovering the children were starved and one had "sucked the insulation in the walls" for water.
- Amber Hunt, the children's guardian ad litem, testified the children were forced to eat baby rice with water, while Kentucky law requires the defendants serve 85% of their sentences before parole eligibility.
- Pike County Commonwealth's Attorney Bill Slone stated, "Never has a case affected me as much as this one," while Judge Eddy Coleman told the court the children had been "living a sentence" of their own.
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Nightmare Locked Away: Kentucky Duo Gets 20-Years For ‘Intentional’ Torture Of 3 Children - Tampa Free Press
A Pike County judge has sentenced Mary Hall and Jerome Norman to 20 years in prison following a harrowing investigation into the systematic starvation and physical abuse of three children. The sentencing, handed down in Pike Circuit Court, marks the end of a case that local prosecutors described as one of the most disturbing instances […] Nightmare Locked Away: Kentucky Duo Gets 20-Years For ‘Intentional’ Torture Of 3 Children
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Couple sentenced after ‘torturing’ children, one child sucked insulation from walls for water, prosecutors say
A couple in Kentucky was sentenced after abusing children to the point that one sucked insulation from the walls to try to get water, authorities said.
Mary Hall, a 44-year-old American woman, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, along with her companion, for having deprived her sister's children of food and tortured them.
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