In 2025 and 2026, several high-profile cases involving women sentenced to 45 years in prison have been reported:
Grei Mendez (March 2025): The operator of a Bronx daycare was sentenced to 45 years in prison for trafficking fentanyl out of her facility. The operations led to the overdose death of a one-year-old boy and the poisoning of three other children.
Brittany Farmer (December 2025): A 40-year-old Colorado woman received a 45-year sentence for the 2024 death of a three-year-old boy. She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and child abuse involving “severe” injuries.
Bonte Glasgow (May 2025): A South Carolina mother was sentenced to 45 years following the death of one of her infant triplets. An autopsy of the eight-month-old revealed multiple broken bones and extreme malnutrition.
Dania Phipps (April 2025): Sentenced to 45 years for murder in St. Kitts and Nevis.
Katrina Mendoza (April 2024): A mother in Texas was sentenced to 45 years for the 2022 torture and death of her five-year-old daughter, Mercedes Lya.
Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani (August 2022): In a widely reported international case, a Saudi woman was sentenced to 45 years in prison for social media posts that allegedly “violated public order” and used the internet to “tear the social fabric”
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