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Mom takes plea bargain; second-degree murder charge dropped

WARNING -- Details of this case may offend some readers.

SWAN RIVER -- A young mother admits she ignored horrific injuries on her three-year-old daughter and refused to get medical care as the girl suffered in silence and died only months after being returned to the mother from foster care.

Melissa Audy, 25, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to failing to provide the necessities of life and was sentenced to one year in jail as part of a plea bargain between Crown and defence lawyers. She is vowing to fight to regain custody of three other children upon her release from custody.

The facts of Venecia Audy's tragic August 2006 death in ...

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