Kirsten Fuglemsmo of Tularosa, who was indicted last summer on six counts of child abuse while awaiting sentence on earlier abuse counts, was given a 30-year sentence last week by state District Judge Frank Wilson, the Alamogordo Daily News reported.

According to a District Attorney's Office news release, Fuglemsmo was indicted by an Otero County grand jury on Jan. 16, 2007, on three counts of abandoning or abusing a child, and was indicted again last July on six abuse and abandonment counts after an investigation by the Tularosa Police Department, the Daily News said.

Prosecutors said the abuse took place between September 2005 and July 2007, according to the DA's Office news release.

Fuglemsmo pleaded guilty to three of the six counts and was sentenced last Thursday by Wilson, who called the woman's actions "outrageous," saying "the ignorance and callousness exhibited by the defendant could not be tolerated within our community," the Daily News reported.

She will serve 12 years in prison and be placed on supervised probation when she is released, the paper said. 

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