JUST IN: A Flagstaff mother has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2020 starvation death of her 6-year-old son.
FLAGSTAFF, AZ — An Arizona woman who pleaded guilty to murder in the starvation death of her 6-year-old son was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Thursday after witnesses described the horrors of the tiny closet that reeked of urine where he and his young brother were kept and denied food.
One police detective testified Thursday that she had never seen anything as horrific in her entire life. Archibeque was charged along with the boy's father, Anthony Martinez, and grandmother, Ann Martinez, who have pleaded not guilty and are being tried separately on murder and child abuse charges. The boys' confinement was punishment for stealing food while the parents slept, police said. Their two sisters were found healthy in the apartment where they all lived.
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