Mary up and I put her on the changing table that their child was fine she was prevented from caring for her child her face was like very very slim like her cheeks almost look sunken a judge ruled there is enough evidence to put a Cedar Springs couple on trial it is life without parole for child abuse first degree and felony murder in their daughter's death a mother from Michigan was found guilty of killing her new born daughter last month and will spend the rest of her life in prison that is a charge called homicide felony murder it is light without parole taana fusari was given a life term without the chance of release by Kent County Judge Paul J denill for killing Mary Welch the defendant's 10-month-old daughter a people from Kent County Ohio found fusari guilty of first-degree murder and first-degree child abuse fusari was also given a 15 to 30 year term by judge denil for child abuse penalty of up to life imprisonment or any term of years less than life that term will run at the same time as the life sentence the person who was charged also had to pay all the court charges and finds during the hearing Fus are's lawyer denian nunzio told the judge that he and his client were going to appeal the case as soon as possible fusari allegedly didn't say anything during the hearing this video shows fusari and her husband Seth Welch's reaction after they were first charged it has been seen over 11 million times feri cried as Welch learned that he would spend the rest of his life in prison without the chance to get out Mary was their third child together fusari was in jail when their fourth child was born in January 2020 Seth Welch was also found guilty of murder and child abuse in the death of Mary and given a life sentence without the chance of release a first degree child abuse as charged fusari who was born and raised in New York first pleaded not guilty to Second deegree murder and second deegree child abuse charges but the court let her change her mind and let the jury decide her fate a County Medical inspector did an autopsy and found that Mary died because she was malnourished and dehydrated police said the baby hadn't been fed in days and had only gained one pound in the 10 months since she was born Harry Wade just 8 lb at the time of her death fuser said in her criminal trial that her husband had abused her for years she told the jury that Welch had raped her while holding a gun to her head he takes the AK out of the closet and he brings it he tells me to get on my knees and he puts the gun to my head a story from Grand Rapids NBC station Wood TV said she said he takes the AK out of the closet tells me to get on my knees and he puts the gun to my head I I have no idea why he's mad at this point I am at a loss for explanation as to why he became so enraged this time as to place a gun to my head fuser said that Welch also tried to cast a spell on her while she was pregnant with their fourth and youngest child reading verses from the Bible as he was she said he was reading Bible verses while slamming the over and over in the shoulder blades with his open palm and saying things like demon get away feri said that Welch's abuse made it impossible for her to protect her child in the final sense recall uh specifically a case to this degree of uh severity despite the fact that the autopsy showed that she had not had any food for days she also said over and over that she fed and nursed Mary I know that I fed her and nursed her on August 2 2018 Welch called 911 to say that he had found Mary dead in her C nunzio said that his client was only a shell of the person she was before she met Welch because she was abused all the time nunzio said she wasn't able to care for her child the way she wanted to he told her he would kill her and beat her up authorities say that the medical examiner found that the child had been dead for at least 72 hours before the 911 call I was not prepared for what I saw when the police arrived they said that AR's eyes and lips were sunken into her head the couple is said to have told detectives that they had seen their daughter Getting Thinner up to a month earlier started putting on weight recently we really started really you know pounding the uh police say feri told them they didn't take the child to the doctor because they were afraid of child protective services but he doesn't take her to a doctor didn't trust medical services and felt it was religiously wrong to do so call CPS when I said I was that baby would have still been alive and she could have had a chance everybody want to know yes I did kill her a lady from Detroit was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of two of her four children and the subsequent practice of placing their remains in the freezer after the remains of the children were discovered in the freezer by removal workers Mitchell Blair who is 36 years old was charged charged with the crime found guilty and sentenced to prison in a span of less than 4 months she confessed to torturing and assaulting her daughter Stony who was 13 years old and her son Steven who was 9 years old in order to cause their deaths in 2013 and 2012 respectively the allegations against my client Mr bar are failure to protect the petition was submitted towards the end of the previous month she claims that they are responsible for the sexual abuse of a sibling but she was not there during the assaults and she did not report them to the authorities for no physical evidence that that younger child was physically abused in her statement the prosecutor Karen Goldfarb said that there was no evidence of sexual abuse she said that she used sticks to strike the individuals that she poured hot water over them and that she placed garbage bags over their heads additionally it was said that the mother had starved her kid by providing her only musly as her sole morning food on a daily basis after that she used a plastic bag and a t-shirt to try to suffocate her life her teenage daughter who was assaulted with a 2x4 and burnt with a clothes iron by her mother reportedly informed the police that Steven had been suffocated with a belt before he passed away the police took this information from her daughter Blair said that she had no intention of killing stepen but that she was pleased with the manner in which she had done it right now the medical examiner has completed the autopsies on two children found stuffed in their mother's freezer in the past medical examinations revealed that the two children who were still alive at the time had been subjected to abuse to provide one example the scars that looked to be the consequence of an extension cable striking the 8-year-old boy were rather noticeable Inc consistent as to the sexual abuse that her younger son in and the other two children who are the attorney for the defendants said in her defense that she too had been mistreated when she was a Youngster according to the allegations the mother appeared before the court for 15 minutes and said that one of the dads of her four children Steven Barry and Alexander dorsy did not have the right to be a part of their lives she was referred to as pathetic by her relatives who also claimed that they were lying about the way she dealt with her children she also said said that the father was often intoxicated whenever he was invited to see his children in addition Blair reported that one of dorsey's other grandchildren claimed that dorsey's father had assaulted her sister in addition the mother responded to the attorney by yelling how dare you say that didn't happen to my child since her other child had not been subjected to any kind of abuse discusted me the dorsy family discusted me cuz how dare you say that didn't happen to my son I was not able to see you there as evidence she cited the fact that her son had said in an interview that he had been subjected to abuse