SPRING, Texas — More than three years after 7-year-old Troy Koehler was found dead inside a washing machine at his family's Spring home, his adoptive mother learned her punishment.

Tiffany Thomas was convicted of injury to a child by omission and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

In July, her husband, Jermaine Thomas, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 50 years.

What happened

Troy's lifeless body was discovered on July 28, 2022, at his family's home on Rosegate Drive in the Birnam Wood subdivision.

His father had reported the boy missing after claiming he returned home just before midnight and found his front door unlocked.

But Precinct 4 deputies later found Troy's fully clothed body inside the washing machine.

According to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez , an autopsy s

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