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Dead Oklahoma City boy's adoptive mother agrees to serve life in prison

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Alibra R. Nichols, 33, of Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty to child abuse, child neglect, enabling child abuse and enabling child neglect. She admitted she struck the boy and failed to provide him proper food and medical care.

BY NOLAN CLAY

A dead boy's adoptive mother agreed Friday to serve life in prison.

Alibra R. Nichols, 33, of Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty to child abuse, child neglect, enabling child abuse and enabling child neglect. She admitted she struck the boy and failed to provide him proper food and medical care.

Her sentence was the outcome of a plea agreement.

Larandon Nichols, 3, died July 11 at an Oklahoma City apartment. An autopsy determined the boy suffered a bacterial infection due to extensive skin injuries. He weighed only 18 pounds.

A pathologist ruled the death was a homicide

Prosecutors said they could not charge the mother with first-degree murder under the law because of the unusual circumstances of the death.

Nichols admitted after the death she “whooped” the boy with her sandals, hangers, switches and a plastic bat, records show. She admitted she got carried away, saying, “It seemed like I was forever whooping him.”

Her live-in boyfriend, Donald Ray Miller, 36, also is charged with child abuse, child neglect, enabling child abuse and enabling child neglect. On Friday, he waived a preliminary hearing on the case.

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2010 Nov 20