Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)

Woman sentenced to 9½ to 19 years in toddler’s death

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UNIONTOWN (AP) >> A western Pennsylvan­ia woman has been sentenced to 9½ to 19 years in the malnutriti­on and dehydratio­n death of her toddler daughter three years ago.

The (Uniontown) Herald-Standard reports that 29-year-old Andrea Dusha was sentenced Monday in accordance with an earlier no contest plea to third-degree murder.

Dusha and 34-year-old Michael Wright Jr. were charged in the February 2016 death of their daughter, Lydia. Authoritie­s said the 23-month-old child weighed just 10 pounds when she died. Wright was convicted of third-degree murder and is to be sentenced later this month.

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