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Oct 10, 10:37 PM EDT
The Associated Press

Child Killer Mom Gets Six Life Sentences


PHOENIX (AP) -- A woman convicted of killing three of her children was provisionally sentenced to six consecutive life sentences.

A federal district judge ruled Thursday that Elvira Charley will remain at a prison hospital in Texas for now. Doctors have said she suffers from depression, and she will not be formally sentenced until she gets better, said Harriet Bernick, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Charley was convicted in January of shooting to death two of her daughters, Ganelle, 11, and Raedelle, 9, and her 10-year-old son, Jerelle. Authorities found them dead in her home on the Navajo Reservation on Jan. 1, 2002.

Prosecutors said the shootings were revenge for her husband's relationship with another woman.

Charley's three youngest children, who were in the home at the time, were unharmed.



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