Lauren Kay Dean pleaded guilty to murder on Wednesday and was sentenced to life in prison in connection to the death of her daughter, Jordynn Barrera.
Besides murder, Lauren Kay Dean was also sentenced to an additional 20 years for two counts of abandonment and endangering a child.A Texas mom pleaded guilty to capital murder in the death of her 7-year-old bedridden daughter whom she allegedly left home alone with younger siblings to go partying more than two years ago.
Dean was also sentenced to an additional 20 years for two counts of abandonment and endangering a child. Police in Bay City, located about 80 miles southwest of Houston, responded to conduct a welfare check at the family’s apartment at approximately 2:36 p.m. on Jan. 31, 2020. Two other siblings, a 5-year-old and a 3-month-old, were also living at the residence and removed from the home. Dean was initially booked into Matagorda County Jail on three separate, second-degree felony charges of the abandonment and endangerment of a child, placing them in imminent danger of bodily injury. The mother was later charged with capital murder of a person under the age of 10.
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