A southern Illinois woman has been sentenced to a decade in prison after admitting she threatened a mother with a knife, tying her up before taking the victim's newborn son.
(Hannibal, Mo)—10th Judicial Circuit Judge Rachel Bringer Shepherd hands down a sentence of 25 years in prison to a Hannibal man on Tuesday, after 37 year-old Melvis Palmer pleads guilty to charges of first-degree assault and sexual assault.