| 15 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago Woman convicted of killing 3-year-old nephew
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A woman who beat her 3-year-old nephew
after she came home from a night of drinking to find a mess in her
Woonsocket home has been convicted of murder.
Katherine Bunnell was convicted of second-degree murder and
conspiracy to commit murder Friday for the 2004 death of Thomas
"T.J" Wright. The jury in Providence Superior Court began
deliberating three days earlier.
She was found not guilty of first-degree murder.
Sentencing was set for July 16, and she faces 10 years to life
in prison.
Bunnell's defense attorney had argued that while she hit the
toddler, her live-in boyfriend, Gilbert Delestre, delivered the
fatal wounds. Delestre also is charged and will be tried
separately.
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