A Brookfield woman was sentenced in Livingston County on September 7th after being found guilty by a jury in July of multiple felonies.
Fifty-three-year-old Nancy Jean Royal was charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts each of abuse or neglect of a child resulting in death and first-degree endangering the welfare of a child creating substantial risk.
Royal was sentenced to 30 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections on one of the abuse or neglect of a child charges. She was sentenced to seven years each on the other four charges. The sentences are to run concurrently with each other.
The charges stemmed from February 2019 incident.