FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): A woman was given a suspended sentence in court Wednesday in a neglect case, a day after her former boyfriend was sentenced to four years behind bars.
Mercedes Tyree, 26, was given a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence according to the Journal Gazette. She also will have to attend and complete parenting classes.
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Zachary Copeland, 20, was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to felony neglect.
Tyree was arrested last year after she and her then-boyfriend took her two-year-old daughter to the hospital. The girl suffered a brain bleed and fractured skull but has recovered.
Copeland and Tyree told police that the girl fell off a bed onto a pile of toys.
