Mom gets 10 years in kids’ deaths
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A woman convicted of letting her three children drown in a car that sank in a lake was sentenced in Clinton to 10 years in prison.
Amanda Hamm, 30, was convicted in December in the deaths of Christopher Hamm, 6; Austin Brown, 3; and Kyleigh Hamm, 1, who were trapped in the car in Clinton Lake in 2003. She was cleared of first-degree murder charges that would have sent her to prison for life.
Prosecutors allege Hamm and then-boyfriend Maurice LaGrone Jr. planned the deaths because the children were in the way of their relationship. LaGrone previously was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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