Red Lake woman gets life in prison for killing her 2 children

RED LAKE, Minn. — A Red Lake woman has been sentenced to life in prison for five counts of first-degree murder and one count of arson in the 2024 killing of two of her children. Jennifer Stately, 37, was sentenced on Friday, Nov. 6, by U.S. District Judge John Tunheim, according to a release from U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen. A federal jury previously convicted Stately on Feb. 25 after a two-and-a-half-week trial. She was first charged in May 2024. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, on March 15, 2024, Stately attacked and killed two of her young children. The evidence at trial showed that Stately, when alone with the children at their home on the Red Lake Nation, assaulted the boys, causing numerous injuries and attacked them with a knife. Stately fatally stabbed her older son before setting the home on fire.

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