ALT: Mom filmed wrapping her crying 1-year-old’s ‘entire body’ in ‘blankets and duct tape,’ blamed baby’s near suffocation on eating ‘shellfish’
A 28-year-old mother in Indiana will spend more than a decade behind bars for physically abusing her 13-month-old son, nearly killing the child by wrapping him in blankets and duct tape. Floyd County Superior Court Judge Carrie K. Stiller earlier this month ordered Jessica Meade to serve a sentence of 16 years in a state correctional facility after Meade pleaded guilty to one count of neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury, authorities announced .
In exchange for pleading guilty, prosecutors agreed to drop an additional felony charge of aggravated assault posing a substantial risk of death originally filed against Meade, records show. Stiller credited Meade with 370 days of time already served and prohibited her from having any contact with the victim…