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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.
An Okaloosa County jury convicted her last month.