A 16 year old Kansas teenage girl, Sierra Neihaus has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for fatally stabbing her 13 year old younger sister to death.
Sierra Neihaus was sentenced on Tuesday in Saline County, Kansas. Sierra Neihaus was 14 at the time she fatally stabbed her 13 year old sister, Galazia Neihaus, at the family's rural home on August 1, 2014.
The serving Judge imposed the longest sentence he could under state sentencing guidelines for the crimes Sierra Niehaus committed. Attorney Julie Effenbeck, who represented Niehaus, said during the proceedings that Niehaus' family was asking the judge for mercy and leniency.
Niehaus was originally charged with first-degree murder which would have carried a 50-year penalty, but Niehaus' parents, who were also the parents of the victim asked for a much shorter term.
The judge imposed a 16-year sentence with prosecutors arguing the term was much-reduced from the usual mandatory 50-year sentence.
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