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Local woman pleads guilty in child suffocation death

Published February 5, 2014 7:46 PM

A Mid-Missouri woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for the death of an 11 week-old baby.

ABC 17 News confirmed Treschell Kemp pleaded guilty in Cooper County to charges of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.

Prosecutors say Kemp shoved a pacifier into the girl’s mouth in May of 2012, suffocating her to death. Kemp is not related to the child.

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