A Missouri foster mother who allegedly traded a child for a monkey will avoid jail time, a judge has ruled.
Brenda Deutsch was sentenced to seven years in prison for child endangerment on Thursday by Lincoln County Judge Thomas Frawley, but he later suspended the sentence, Fox 2 reported.
Instead, the 70-year-old has to complete three years of state-supervised probation, according to the outlet. If she stays out of trouble during that time, she will avoid prison completely.
Deutsch, of Winfield, accepted a plea deal in June after police said that she sent her eighth-grade-aged foster daughter, Annabella Rodriquez, to live with a family in Texas in
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