Mother convicted of deaths of 2 girls found on Colorado farm

A jury in southwest Colorado has convicted a mother of two girls who died after they were banished to a car without food or water by members of a doomsday religious group because the girls were thought to have been impure.

KMGH-TV in Denver reports Nashika Bramble was found guilty Wednesday of two counts of first-degree murder in the 2017 deaths of 10-year-old Makayla Roberts and 8-year-old Hannah Marshall.

The sisters’ bodies were found in a car parked on a San Miguel County farm near Norwood in September 2017. Authorities said they died of heat, dehydration and starvation.

Bramble was a member of a religious group that moved to the property earlier that year. Other group members also were charged, and Bramble is expected to be sentenced this fall.