An East Tennessee couple
has been sentenced to 35 years in prison each for their role in the death of a
5-year-old girl forced to drink so much grape soda it caused her brain to
swell.
Randall Vaughn, 42, and
Mary Vaughn, 59 (pictured above) pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and
aggravated child neglect and were sentenced to 35 years in prison on
Monday in Rogersville, Tennessee.
The court heard they made the girl drink more than half a gallon
of grape soda and water in just two hours.
An investigation found the young girl had been forced to drink the
water and soda in one to two hours as punishment after taking one of her
stepmother's drinks.
The huge intake of fluid caused her brain to swell and herniate,
which led to her death on January 3, 2012.
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