{"id":25418,"date":"2023-05-29T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T19:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=25418"},"modified":"2023-05-29T15:17:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T19:17:17","slug":"mother-pleads-guilty-to-murder-after-six-year-old-son-starves-to-death-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/05\/29\/mother-pleads-guilty-to-murder-after-six-year-old-son-starves-to-death-in-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother pleads guilty to murder after six-year-old son starves to death in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mother has pleaded guilty to murder and child abuse over the death of her six-year-old son in Arizona.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Archibeque, 26, reached a plea deal with prosecutors this month and could face life in prison under the first-degree murder charge.<\/p>\n

Her son, Deshaun Martinez, had been locked inside a small bedroom closet without food until he died in March 2020, reported the\u00a0Arizona<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Daily Sun.<\/p>\n

A post-mortem found the child starved to death.<\/p>\n

When he died, he weighed just 18lbs (8.1kg) – which is well below average for his age.<\/p>\n

The boy had a “skeletal appearance” because he had almost no fat on his body.<\/p>\n

Archibeque was charged along with the boy’s father, Anthony Martinez, and his grandmother, Ann Martinez. The cases were being tried separately.<\/p>\n

The boy’s parents initially put their son’s malnourished state down to a medical condition and to taking diet or caffeine pills.<\/p>\n

Eventually, they told police they kept Deshaun and his older brother in a closet in their Flagstaff apartment for 16 hours a day and gave them little to eat. The brother survived.<\/p>\n

Police said the youngsters were confined there as punishment for stealing food while the parents slept.<\/p>\n

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The adults told officers that Deshaun had been in the closet for “about a month”.<\/p>\n

Both Anthony Martinez and Ann Martinez reportedly have previously pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

According to the terms of the plea agreement, Archibeque will not be eligible for probation.<\/p>\n

She will be sentenced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

If she gets life, she will not be eligible for any kind of parole.<\/p>\n

Source: \u00a0\"Sky<\/a> news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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