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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Mother jailed for murdering man who ‘beat her 19-year-old son with baseball bat’

Sedgwick County Jail

A mother has been jailed for more than 16 years for the murder of a man who allegedly beat up her 19-year-old son with a baseball bat, after a judge dismissed pleas for leniency because she is a “caring, compassionate person”.

Amber Kay Ahrens was sentenced on Wednesday to 195 months in prison and three years probation for the 2020 killing of David Leddy in Wichita, Kansas, according to The Wichita Eagle.

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