A 35-year-old mother in Kentucky will be spending time in prison after her three children were left alone for days at a time and forced to stay outside in the yard in "unlivable" and "inhumane conditions."

A Jefferson County judge this week ordered Betty Sue Snider to serve three years in a state correctional facility for the treatment of her children, who were ages 10, 11, and 16 when she was arrested last year.

In July, Snider entered an Alford plea to four counts of wanton endangerment, four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor, and three counts of abandonment of a minor, Louisville CBS affiliate WLKY reported .

An Alford plea is functionally equivalent to a guilty plea in that it results in a conviction, but it allows a defendant to maintain their claim of innocence while co

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