Sullivan County, TN (WOKI) UPDATE: Megan Boswell, the Sullivan County mom found guilty of murdering her 15 month-old daughter, Evelyn, will now spend decades behind bars.
The jury in the case rendering a unanimous sentence on the first-degree murder charges against Boswell Thursday afternoon, sentencing her to life in prison for each of the three murder charges against her.
The jury also found Boswell guilty on various child abuse and neglect charges, tampering with evidence, 11 counts of false report and abuse of a corpse. The judge Thursday setting a formal sentencing hearing on the remaining charges for May 22 at 1:30 p.m.
ORIGINAL STORY: The verdict is in and Megan Boswell is found guilty of all 19 charges in the death of her 15 month old daughter Evelyn in 2019.
Boswell was found guilty of the following charges:
- First-degree premeditated murder
- First-degree murder in the perpetration of aggravated child abuse
- First-degree murder in the perpetration of aggravated child neglect
- Aggravated child abuse
- Aggravated child neglect
- Tampering with evidence
- 11 counts of false report
- Abuse of a corpse
- Failure to report a death under suspicious, unusual or unnatural circumstances
The next step will be to determine Megan’s sentence as Prosecutors have said they would not seek the death penalty but possible life in prison without the possibilty of parole.
The trial began February 5th.
