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DALLAS — A mother whose three children were found starving after being shut away in a hotel bathroom for as long as nine months was sentenced to life in prison Friday after changing her plea to guilty in the middle of her trial.
Abneris Santiago’s plea came a day after she apologized to her 11-year-old daughter in the courtroom, saying she wasn’t strong enough to stop the abuse.
Police rescued the girl and her 10- and 5-year-old brothers from a bathroom at an extended-stay hotel in July 2009.
Denver Post wire services
