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Mom hung boy by feet for days
VERNAL, Utah, A Utah woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for abuse that included hanging her 5-year-old son upside down for up to four days, authorities said.
The boy testified at Michelle Napolitano's sentencing hearing Tuesday, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Wednesday. Judge A. Lynn Payne told Napolitano he hoped she would serve the entire sentence without parole.
Prosecutors said the boy lost all of his toes and parts of his feet to amputation.
Deputy Uintah County Prosecutor Gregory Lamb said when Napolitano's six children were first removed from their home in Vernal investigators did not realize how seriously they had been abused. He said they gradually opened up after some time in foster homes and began talking about what they had endured.
Napolitano pleaded guilty to intentionally inflicting serious injury on her son and to five misdemeanor counts involving his siblings. Payne ordered that Napolitano serve the sentenced consecutively.
VERNAL, Utah, A Utah woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for abuse that included hanging her 5-year-old son upside down for up to four days, authorities said.
The boy testified at Michelle Napolitano's sentencing hearing Tuesday, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Wednesday. Judge A. Lynn Payne told Napolitano he hoped she would serve the entire sentence without parole.
Prosecutors said the boy lost all of his toes and parts of his feet to amputation.
Deputy Uintah County Prosecutor Gregory Lamb said when Napolitano's six children were first removed from their home in Vernal investigators did not realize how seriously they had been abused. He said they gradually opened up after some time in foster homes and began talking about what they had endured.
Napolitano pleaded guilty to intentionally inflicting serious injury on her son and to five misdemeanor counts involving his siblings. Payne ordered that Napolitano serve the sentenced consecutively.
