OHIO Woman enters guilty plea in toddler's death

COLUMBUS (AP) -- A woman was sentenced to 14 years in prison for helping her husband kill their 2-year-old adopted son, who died five days after being scalded in a bathtub.
Amy Thompson, 33, pleaded guilty Friday to involuntary manslaughter and endangering children before Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Dale A. Crawford. She withdrew an innocent-by-reason-of-insanity plea after a psychological report found her competent for trial.
Thompson's husband, Gary, pleaded guilty in December to murder for holding down his son, Liam, in the 140-degree water Oct. 11. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
Assistant County Prosecutor Daniel Hawkins said Gary Thompson, 32, tortured the child while his wife was at work as a nurse's assistant at a nursing home.
No help given
Amy Thompson did nothing to help the child when she got home, and the couple placed the boy on a mattress in the basement before barricading the area with boxes and furniture, Hawkins said.
The boy never received medical attention.
In a diary police found while investigating the boy's death, Amy Thompson wrote she and her husband discussed getting rid of their two adopted children "like dogs in a pound," Hawkins said.
She wrote in her computer journal that just seeing the 2-year-old boy and his 3-year-old adopted daughter, both from Russia, sickened her.
The couple's adopted daughter and biological children were placed in foster care.