When the school social worker told the children that she would have to speak to their mother, court documents say, the children became “petrified” and said, “If you do, it will make everything worse.”
The original plea agreement in the child abuse case called for Townsend to be sentenced Oct. 28 to 4-8 years in prison, but the state took that deal off the table after Townsend was again accused of child abuse and assault.
A Cheyenne man has been arrested and charged with child abuse after police responded to his residence Monday evening and found his 2-month-old son limp in his crib.
Federal judges sentenced six men and one woman recently for sex crimes, assault and drugs, according to a news release from the Wyoming U.S. Attorney's Office.
On Monday, 32-year-old Jill Ann Culler pleaded not guilty to one count of child abuse. If convicted, she would face a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Court documents say that an Albany County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to a single-story trailer home in Albany County at 10:42 p...