A jury found Kaytlin Fultz not guilty of child neglect after two days of trial.
The verdict comes eight months after a video was widely circulated of a foster child crying in her backyard on a freezing February afternoon. Fultz faced misdemeanor child neglect charges in the Muscogee Creek Nation District Court.
WATCH: Jury finds Haskell foster mother not guilty of child neglect
Emotion flooded the courtroom as the verdict was read. Fultz and her family declined to speak to 2 News on camera, but her mother said she was relieved.
Fultz was the only witness called on by the defense and provided new details about the circumstances that led up to the incident captured on video.
During testimony, Fultz said the child had been placed in 12 different foster homes in the nine months before com

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