Ex-AG’s wife can leave jail to raise kids
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PITTSBURGH (AP) – A former state prosecutor’s wife who is serving six to 12 months in jail for endangering here two adopted Ethiopian children can leave jail for eight hours each weekday to care for the couple’s biological children.
An Allegheny County judge modified 32-year-old Kristen Barbour’s sentence Friday over the objections of county prosecutors.
Barbour and her 35-year-old husband, Douglas, were sentenced last month after pleading no contest to child endangerment counts in June. Douglas Barbour, who’s on probation, resigned from the state attorney general’s office after the couple was charged in October 2012.
That’s when their 6-year-old adopted son was being malnourished and an 18-month-old girl had multiple head fractures in various stages of healing.
Douglas Barbour now lives and works at his family’s nursery farm.