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Adoptive parents sentenced to prison after 10-year-old was found weighing just 36 pounds
‘I’ve never seen a human being who would do what you two did to another human being.’
Nearly as quickly as the trial began this week, proceedings ended early Thursday morning, as the defendants agreed to plead guilty.
Krista Schindley, 49, and Tyler Schindley, 48, were accused of charges in the sad and shocking case.
The parents have seven children — two by birth, five by adoption.
The Schindleys pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree cruelty to children, two counts of false imprisonment, one count of criminal attempt to commit felony, one count of aggravated battery, and one count of family violence battery.
Krista also pleaded guilty to three additional charges of aggravated assault.
The couple after a neighbor found their visibly malnourished 10-year-old child wandering around the neighborhood.
, the neighbor stated that she saw the child walking alone and went to ask him if he was okay.
“He’s asking us not to tell his parents. I don’t know who his parents are,” the woman…
