Florida mom gets 20 years for drowning her daughter
Florida mom gets 20 years for drowning her daughter
May 31, 2022 by New York Daily News
Key Facts
- A Florida mom who carried her 4-year-old daughter out to a river and left her to drown admitted Tuesday to a murder charge in exchange for a 20-year sentence.
- Shakayla Denson, 29, pleaded guilty in a Tampa courtroom to a reduced charge of second-degree murder for taking her daughter into the Hillsborough River and letting go in August 2018.
- Denson was arrested shortly after she was seen walking out of the river and screaming on the shore.
- Denson, who will be on probation for 10 years following her release from prison, also pleaded guilty to aggravated child abuse and grand theft of a motor vehicle.
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