Mother sentencing today
A woman accused of neglecting her four sons in a filthy Denver apartment is awaiting sentencing for child abuse.
Lorinda Bailey is scheduled to be sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in August to her second offense of child abuse. She faces up to seven years in prison as part of a deal with prosecutors.
Police say Bailey and the boys’ father, Wayne Sperling, kept their sons in an apartment filled with cat feces and flies. When authorities found the children in October 2013, they could communicate only in grunts. Authorities say the children were malnourished and were not toilet trained. Prosecutors say it was one of the worst cases they had ever seen, but the children were not seriously physically injured.
Sperling faces a court hearing next week.
