The mother of a 5-year-old New Hampshire boy whose body was found in a makeshift grave in Massachusetts in October 2021, days after he was reported missing, is pleading guilty and will face decades in prison.
Danielle Dauphinais had previously pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and witness tampering.
She filed a noticed Monday in Hillsborough Superior Court that she agreed to plead guilty to the second-degree murder charge, which will carry a sentence of 55 years to life in prison, as well as two counts of witness tampering, which would carry a sentence of 3.5-7 years in prison consecutive to the murder sentence…