SHALIMAR - A mother was sentenced to five years in prison for child neglect after a jury rejected her claim that her mentally disabled 14-year-old son died from eating bad oysters.
Prosecutors said filthy conditions at Michelle Wesson's home in Holt - animal and human feces, decaying food and dirty bathtub water - were to blame for Jimmy Alford's death from septicemia, a blood disease, on Nov. 11, 2001.
Circuit Judge Thomas Remington on Wednesday also ordered psychiatric evaluation and five years' probation for Wesson, 34, after her release.
