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Sentence Reduced For Mother Who Left Boy In Frigid Car

BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP/CBS4) — A Colorado judge reduced the sentence for a woman who left her 2-year-old son in a car overnight during a snowstorm, causing him to suffer hypothermia and frostbite.

Nicole Carmon
Nicole Carmon (credit: Thornton Police)

Adams County District Judge Thomas Ensor on Thursday reduced Nicole Carmon's prison sentence from eight years to five. That decision came after the objections of the District Attorney's Office and a motion filed by the defense to reconsider the sentence.

Carmon was sentenced in January after pleading guilty to negligent child abuse and attempted first-degree assault.

Investigators say Carmon called police on Dec. 17, 2016 to report that she'd been drinking and "lost" her son. Officers found her car in a parking lot in Thornton. The boy was alone for more than 14 hours as the outside temperature fell to minus 8 degrees (-22 Celsius).

Nicole Carmon in Court EMC City pool link_frame_43437
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Prosecutors opposed the reduction, arguing Carmon's long-standing pattern of neglecting her children demonstrates her character better than any progress she has made while in prison.

(© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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