Overview

• Elizabeth Archibeque pleaded guilty to locking her 6-year-old son in a closet and starving him to death.
• Archibeque and the boy's father admitted to disciplining their four children by locking them in the closet without food.
• The 6-year-old boy weighed only 18 pounds at the time of his death in March 2020.
• Archibeque faces a potential life sentence in prison without parole or probation under a plea agreement.
• The boy's father and grandmother also face charges in the boy's death and their cases are being tried separately.