Probation was denied Wednesday morning in Christian Circuit Court for the Oak Grove woman who recently accepted a plea deal in connection with the June, 2020 death of her teen daughter.
The original indictment for second-degree manslaughter alleged 50-year old Patricia Conyers caused the death of her daughter by failing to provide her with appropriate medical care and by “failing to do what a reasonable person would do, knowing the child would not get better without a doctor’s care.”
On October 5, Conyers entered an Alford plea to that charge as part of a deal that comes with a recommended five-year sentence, with the Commonwealth neutral on probation.
Defense attorney Jason Holland argued at sentencing that Conyers already has to live with the grief from her daughter’s death and that prison would serve no purpose.
After reviewing medical records and additional supplementation of the record on the circumstances of the victim’s death by the attorneys, Circuit Judge John Atkins denied probation and sentenced Conyers to five years in prison.
Conyers was lodged in the Christian County Jail.