A Bullitt County woman has been charged in the 2020 death of her 4-year-old daughter.
Catherine “Abby” McKinney pleaded guilty on Friday to manslaughter, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence in connection to the death of Serenity McKinney.
Serenity was last seen in December 2020 and was reported missing by her grandparents a month later.
In February 2022, Kentucky State Police found Serenity’s body in a wooded area inside a green suitcase near the Jefferson-Bullitt County line. The Bullitt County Coroner confirmed the results later in August.
Prosecutors offered McKinney a plea deal dropping charges from murder to manslaughter in order to get her to agree to testify against her boyfriend, Dakota Hill, who is the other suspect in this case.
Under the deal, McKinney will get a 12-year sentence and will have to serve at least a decade.
A judge needs to sign off on the plea deal for McKinney. Hill is scheduled to appear in court in June.
Source: WAVE
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