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CommentsA woman who isolated and starved her stepdaughter has been sentenced to more than three years in prison, far below what the victim asked the judge to impose.
Rebecca Long, 45, was sentenced to three years and five months in King County Superior Court on Friday. The victim, now 15, had asked for an exceptional sentence of 11 years, “One for every year she made me feel ashamed of myself and abused me,” she told the court.
The Seattle Times reported that Judge William Downing gave Long a sentence at the top range for first-degree criminal mistreatment.
Long entered an Alford plea to first-degree criminal mistreatment in September. She was arrested last year after her stepdaughter was discovered at age 14 weighing just 48 pounds.
The Associated Press
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