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« Providence City Council calls special meeting on storm | Today | Lawmaker pays $6,000 to settle ethics complaint » December 18, 2007Woman gets 35 years for daughter's murder/ Photo
Journal photo/ Kathy Borchers
Kimberly Mawson listens as the prosecutor asks the judge to impose a maximum prison sentence. Her attorney at right is Kevin Bristow.
A woman convicted of murdering her 19-month-old daughter was sentenced this morning to spend 35 years behind bars. If she serves the entire sentence, Kimberly Mawson will be 72 when she is released from the Adult Correctional Institutions. "This whole thing is very surreal," she said before the sentence was read. Mawson's bail was revoked, she was handcuffed and taken to immediately begin serving the sentence. In all, Kent County Superior Court Associate Judge Edwin J. Gale sentenced Mawson to 60 years, with 35 to serve and 25 years suspended. Mawson will also serve 25 years probation after her sentence, including mental health counseling. She is not allowed any unsupervised contact with anyone younger than 16. -- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson, with reports from Journal staff writer Talia Buford In December, 2002, the baby, named Jade, collapsed in the living room floor of an Elmwood Avenue, Warwick, apartment. Two days later she was declared brain dead at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. An autopsy showed the girl had bruises on her head and her body that suggested an adult had grabbed and squeezed Jade so hard that one of her ribs broke. A blow to the girl’s head burst the blood vessels behind her eyes. And an object the size of a pencil had apparently penetrated the girl’s vagina. Despite Mawson’s lawyer’s claim that Daniel Fusco -- Mawson’s former boyfriend who was watching Jade at when she collapsed -- was responsible for the girl’s death, a jury in October found Mawson guilty of second-degree murder. Posted by Brandie Jefferson Commentsjoe | December 18, 2007 1:36 PM link Has Bristow ever won a case? He couldn't even keep Fran Driscoll out of the can. What a waste of money. Ron | December 18, 2007 9:02 PM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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I find this incomprehensible. Did this woman show no signs of this prior to this? Why was the child in her custody?