Dewitt County Woman Released on Perole DEWITT COUNTY ILLINOIS (wsiu) - A central Illinois woman convicted in the drowning deaths of her three children is free on parole.
Illinois department of corrections spokesman Derek Schnapp says Amanda Hamm left the Dwight Correctional Center just after 9 a.m.
Hamm was convicted of child endangerment in 2006 in the deaths of 6 year old Christopher Hamm, 3-year-old Austin Brown and 23 month old Kyleigh Hamm. She served almost five years of a 10 year sentence.
Hamm's boyfriend, Maurice Lagrone jr., is serving a life
Sentence after being convicted of first degree murder.
Prosecutors say Hamm and Lagrone plotted to drown the children in Clinton Lake. They claimed the deaths were accidental.
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