An Ohio mother's fate has been sealed for chaining her adopted son to a cot and starving him to death in what authorities called a case of "depravity."

Tamara Moore, 53, was sentenced to the maximum sentence of 15 years in prison for the death of 16-year-old Jeremiah Moore. This came after she pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.

As Law&Crime previously reported , Tamara Moore's boyfriend, then-59-year-old William Turnage, pleaded guilty to the same charges. The Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office said that as part of the plea deal, charges of murder and failure to report a crime were dropped.

Turnage accepted the plea deal after agreeing to testify against Moore, Cincinnati-based Fox affiliate WXIX reported , and he was sentenced to 11 to 15 years in priso

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