A 70-year-old Lincoln County, Missouri foster mother who shipped a teenage girl in her care across state lines, in a scheme witnesses said was tied to a monkey, will spend exactly zero days in a Missouri prison for the felony she just admitted.
Brenda Deutsch, 71, of Winfield, pleaded guilty to first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, a Class D felony, after an adopted teenage girl in her care was shipped off to a filthy Texas residence that Deutsch had allegedly never inspected, FOX 2 Now reported.
On Thursday, Lincoln County Judge Thomas J. Frawley sentenced Deutsch to seven years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, but then suspended the execution of that sentence and placed her on three years of supervised probation.
In other words, Deutsch will remain out of prison unless she violates the terms of her probation.
The probation conditions require Deutsch to have no contact with the victim, undergo mental-health treatment, and complete a cognitive behavioral intervention program.
Deutsch reportedly spent 99 days in jail before her bond was reduced, according to arguments contained in her sentencing memorandum. She will serve no additional incarceration under the sentence unless her probation is revoked.
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