Tylar Witt & boyfriend sentenced for murdering her mother

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Tylar Witt was 14 when she helped her boyfriend murder her mom. And on Friday she got a reduced sentence in exchange for testifying against her love-struck accomplice. Witt, now 16, got her conviction reduced from first-degree to second-degree murder, while Steven Colver, now 21, was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of 47-year-old Joanne Witt in 2009. Witt will now serve 15 years to life in prison. The teens hatched the murder plot after Joanne Witt made a statutory rape complaint against Colver and gave police her daughter's diary.

source: Article 'Tylar Witt & Boyfriend Sentenced for Murdering Her Mother' by Howard Breuer; people.com/crime/pregnant-mass-woman-jumps-from-second-story-window-to-escape-boyfriend-holding-her-captive/; PEOPLE.com; 15 August 2011