Mt. Pleasant couple sentenced in starvation case

Mt. Pleasant couple sentenced in starvation case
August 16, 2012
By SCRN

A Mount Pleasant couple charged with homicide by child neglect were sentenced Thursday, two years after their son starved to death.

Charles Gordon and his wife Ashley pleaded guilty to the charges but tearfully asked Circuit Court Judge J.C. Nicholson for mercy in the 2010 case. They said their 9-month-old son Andrew was being fed but continued to lose weight. Ashley Gordon said she thought something might have been wrong but did not think the situation was that serious. It turned out the infant was slowly starving to death.
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