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Last updated on Tuesday, March 31, 2015
(SOUTH BEND) - A northern Indiana woman convicted of neglect of a dependent and feticide after prosecutors accused her of taking drugs from China to end a pregnancy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Hurley sentenced 33-year-old Purvi Patel of Granger to 30 years Monday on the neglect charge, suspending the final 10 years, and ordered her to serve a concurrent six-year sentence on the feticide conviction. Patel was found guilty in February of neglect of a baby whose body was found two years ago in a trash bin behind her family's restaurant in Mishawaka.
Hurley said an aggravating factor in the sentencing was Patel's "treatment of the child literally as a piece of trash."
Patel plans to appeal the conviction.
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