A 32-year-old mother in Oklahoma will spend more than two decades behind bars for fatally abusing and starving her 7-year-old daughter , after she brought the severely emaciated child's body to a local hospital last year.

Oklahoma County District Judge Cindy H. Truong last week ordered Lisa Mitchell to serve 24 years in a state correctional facility, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show. Truong handed down the sentence after Mitchell pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder of a child in the death of young Violet Mitchell. Following her release, Mitchell will be required to serve an additional six years on supervised release.

The victim's father, Anthony Yonko, last month pleaded guilty to the same charge and received the same sentence from Truong.

The victim's uncle, Dav

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