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Show CRUEL PARENTS ! ARE SENTENCED: WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (U.I!I The father and stepmother of Edith Riley, the 13-year old girl I who lived for several years a prisoner in a small closet, were ! each sentenced today to serve two 1 years in jail. Harry N. Riley and his wdfe, Elsie, also were fined $250 each by Justice Letts In the District of Co-' Co-' lumbia supreme court. The Rileys were convicted last week on a charge of cruelty to the child. The maximum penaltiea were imposed. Justice Letts, in finding the couple guilty, said it was almost unbelievable un-believable that such treatment had been accorded a human being in a modern city. Testimony at the two day trial placed Edith's mental ago at four years. Witnesses said she had been fed on discarded scraps of food while being confined In an unlighted, poorly ventilated cupboard. |