ASH FLAT, Ark. (AP) – A judge has ordered a Fulton County woman to serve 20 years
in state prison in the death of an elderly woman who was found beaten and
covered with bite marks.
Prosecutor Henry Boyce says 56-year-old Jennifer Lea Collins of Mammoth Spring
pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Wednesday in the death of 92-year-old
Jane Sandefur of Cherokee Village.
Collins had been hired as a caregiver for Sandefur and was accused of
attacking the elderly woman on May 11, 2017. Sandefur died a week later due to
complications from her injuries.
An original charge of first-degree battery against Collins was upgraded
following Sandefur’s death. Judge Harold S. Erwin sentenced Collins to 30 years
in prison but suspended 10 years of the sentence and ordered her to serve the
remaining 20 years.
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