Kentucky couple sentenced to nearly 20 years after child abuse case in Pike County

A disturbing case of prolonged child abuse in eastern Kentucky has ended with prison sentences for a couple accused of starving and confining children under their care. The details, laid out in court and through witness testimony, described conditions likened to torture, with one child driven to desperate measures to survive.

PIKE COUNTY, KY – Jerome Norman, 44, and Mary Hall, 44, were sentenced Friday to just under 20 years in prison after entering blind Alford pleas to multiple counts of crimi...