CANTON, Ohio — Terri Niner, the Canton woman indicted in the stabbing death of her daughter , Ayla Mangan, was sentenced in Stark County Common Pleas Court after changing her plea to guilty on Thursday.

Court officials tell 3News that Judge Taryn Heath sentenced the 49-year-old Niner to three years in prison after she agreed to plead guilty to one count of felony involuntary manslaughter and a misdemeanor charge of negligent assault.

CASE DETAILS

At approximately 9:35 a.m. on July 10, Canton police officers were called a house in the 2300 block of 20th Street Northeast. Upon arrival, they found the 30-year-old Mangan in the backyard of the home.

Canton Fire Department medics aided Mangan at the scene for a stab wound to her back before she was transported to Cleveland Clinic Mercy

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