Overview

• Superior Court Judge George Bell imposed consecutive terms of 200–252 months for murder and 125–162 months for felony child abuse, yielding a minimum of about 27 years in prison.
• A jury on Friday convicted Nicholas Shane Stephenson of second-degree murder and felony child abuse in the 2022 death of his 12-week-old daughter, Riley.
• First responders found the infant emaciated with visible injuries, and hospital and autopsy findings documented multiple fractures, facial burns, dehydration, extreme underweight, florid pneumonia, and almost no nourishment in her system.
• Riley's mother, Diandra Fuhr-Farlow, previously pleaded guilty to felony child abuse and testified for the prosecution after initially facing a first-degree murder charge.
• Authorities first filed charges in late June 2022 and later upgraded them to first-degree murder following investigative review and preliminary autopsy findings.