Overview

• Judge Patricia Aanes handed down the 468-month prison term on August 8 following Borders’s June conviction in Crow Wing County District Court.
• Borders was found guilty of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of child torture, three counts of stalking and four counts of theft by false representation.
• Prosecutors showed she fabricated medical conditions by extracting her nine-year-old son’s blood to feign anemia and forced her other children to dispose of it before doctor visits.
• She falsely diagnosed two children with osteogenesis imperfecta, forcing them to wear boots, casts and neck braces, and received more than $18,000 in state benefits through fraudulent Medicaid claims.
• Attorney General Keith Ellison called the crimes among the “most heinous and agonizing” he has seen and urged public support for the ongoing recovery of the victims.