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Court sentences Sarah Fuson to 20 years for aggravated child abuse; 4 years concurrent on related count
Summary
A Tennessee judge sentenced Sarah Fuson to 20 years in prison for aggravated child abuse and 4 years on a related child-abuse count, to run concurrently, after victim impact testimony, conflicting sentencing arguments about enhancement factors, and the judge's statutory analysis.
A Tennessee court on an announced sentencing imposed 20 years in the Tennessee Department of Correction on Sarah Fuson for aggravated child abuse (count 1) and 4 years on a separate child-abuse count (count 2), the judge said, with the sentences to run concurrently.
The sentence followed a victim impact statement by Macy Hyde, mother of the injured child Olivia Hyde, who described bruising, disrupted sleep and ongoing therapy and asked the court to "remember that behind this case is a real child" and to reflect the "gravity of the suffering." The state offered the pre-sentence investigation compiled by Wendy James and relied on statutory enhancement factors in its sentencing memorandum.
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