According to the reports, Sara Lynn Krueger and Ryan Scott Warner were convicted in 2017 of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture, in connection with the death of 3-year-old Kayleigh Slusher. Krueger was Kayleigh’s mother and Warner was Krueger’s live-in boyfriend at the time of the child’s death.

Both of them were using meth heavily during those months according to the courts documents that ked to Keyleigh’s death on Jan 30, 2014. They challenged their sentences and convictions. They said that there was not enough evidence during the trial that showed that they intentionally killed the child. 

The Court of Appeal of the State of California, First Appellate District ultimately agreed and on Wednesday, threw out the torture charge. The re-sentencing is scheduled to take place at the Napa County Superior Court. A court date has not yet been set. During the trial, the mother confessed that she smoked meth for years but quit when she became pregnant. 

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Napa County District Attorney Allison Haley disagreed with the court’s findings.

“If not an intent to kill, then why beat your baby so severely that her intestine ruptures? If not an intent to kill, then why not call a doctor when your baby is screaming in pain as evidenced by the testimony of neighbors? If not an intent to kill, then why not call an ambulance when you find her lifeless body on your floor?

“I support fully the unanimous verdicts of twenty-four Napa County jurors who had the courage and common sense to call abject cruelty what it was.”

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