Consecutive Sentences News Today

YouTube vlogger Ruby Franke, who pleaded guilty to aggravated child abuse of two of her children, was sentenced Tuesday to four consecutive sentences of one to 15 years in prison. The amount of time Franke spends in jail will be up to the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole. Franke and her former business partner, Connexions Classroom founder Jodi Hildebrandt, both pleaded guilty to four counts of child abuse in Washington County 5th District Court in Utah in December.

In a split decision, the Ohio Supreme Court upheld a 65-year prison sentence given to a woman who stole items from nursing home residents.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 ruled there is no federal constitutional right to abortion, states have been left to decide the issue. More than a dozen have made abortion illegal in nearly every circumstance, while the procedure is legal in 25 states up to at least 22 weeks. In several states, bans or restrictions on abortion are blocked while courts review the laws. Ohio is among them.

Mackenzie Shirilla, the Ohio teen who was convicted of murdering her boyfriend and friend in an intentional car crash, has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.

A LaPorte man ordered to serve 150 years in prison for three Class A child molesting convictions is entitled to no reduction in his sentence, the Indiana Court of Appeals