The courts handed down their sentences 1 year later.
Robert had deliberately caused the crash that left Evelyn severely injured and comatose for 22 years. He had then helped conceal the switched babies and assisted Diane in drugging me over a long period.
On the combined charges, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Diane had participated in the switch, the poisoning, and the destruction of evidence. She was also sentenced to life imprisonment.
When the sentence was read, she collapsed at the defense table and cried over and over, "I'm her mother! I raised her!"
The judge ignored the performance.
Family ties weren't a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Besides, what Diane had done was never parenting. It was control, cruelty, and exploitation.
Ethan was convicted of loan fraud, theft of
