A prison sentence for a mother who left her 2-year-old son in a car overnight during a snowstorm has been reduced from eight to five years.
Adams County District Judge Thomas Ensor on Thursday reduced the sentence for Nicole Carmon in response to a filing by her defense attorney.
Carmon, 28, of Westminster, was sentenced in January after pleading guilty to negligent child abuse causing serious bodily injury and attempted first-degree assault.
Thornton police on Dec. 17, 2016, found her son strapped into a car seat in a parking lot. Carmon, who had been drinking heavily, left the boy in the car overnight in a snowstorm. He was rushed to a hospital for treatment of frostbite and hypothermia.
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