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Carlinville Woman Receives Decade Plus Prison Term in Death of Toddler

A 34-year-old Carlinville woman who threw a toddler against a wall, didn’t get immediate medical attention for him and drove for three hours running errands before finally stopping in Litchfield where she  finally tried to get help too late, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Ashley Bottoms received the sentence in the death of her stepson, 3-year-old Hunter Drew. She threw Hunter against a wall to break up a fight at her residence. The impact caused a brain bleed, leading to Hunter’s death. , Bottoms pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter of a family member at an April hearing. Macoupin County Judge Joshua Meyer handed down the sentence Monday morning

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