A 34-year-old woman convicted of starving her 8-year-old daughter to death was sentenced today to 45 years in prison.
Krisla Rezireksyon Kris was found guilty in March of aggravated manslaughter for starving her daughter Christiana Glenn to death in May of 2011. Rezireksyon was also found guilty of 16 counts of endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of aggravated manslaughter for her two other children - a 6-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl - who were beaten and denied food.
Kris was charged after Christiana was found dead in the family’s Chancellor Avenue apartment in Irvington on May 22, 2011. The cause of death was starvation and an untreated broken femur – the large bone in the thigh.
In March, a jury acquitted the mother of murder, the most serious charge, but found her guilty of the less serious homicide charge of aggravated manslaughter.
In addition to aggravated manslaughter, Kris, whose birth name was Venette Ovilde, was found guilty of 16 counts of endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of aggravated assault.
She was charged with endangering because she withheld food from all three children, physically assaulted them, tied them to a radiator, forced them to kneel on salt with heavy objects on their heads, withheld medical care and left them home alone for extended periods of time.