Women sentenced to more than two decades in prison for fatally abusing 10-year-old.
Leviticus “Levi” Kuchta’s young life was cut short by a perfect storm of events that left him living with his sister, prosecutors said.
His sister April was sentenced to a maximum 35 years Thursday in a plea deal. Rachel Wright was sentenced to 25 years Friday, the most allowed in her own plea deal. In cross-examination, Koonce showed her the numerous graphic pictures showing the boy’s abuse. Did you see these, the prosecutors asked of at least a half-dozen injuries. No, Maples responded each time.Would you have stood aside and done nothing if you saw Levi was abused, Cantrell asked.“No!,” she responded, adding she would have talked to Rachel or done something to care for the boy’s injuries.
Cantrell countered that Rachel Wright didn’t get the same benefit from a typical couple charged in a child abuse case, because she was a woman who looked like a man, with a short haircut. Prosecutors couldn’t say for sure who actually killed the boy, he said. He asked for 20 years, 15 in the Indiana Department of Corrections and 5 in Lake County Community Corrections.
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