Mom sentenced in deaths of 2 girls banished by doomsday cult

Girls banished to a car without food, water because they were thought to have been impure

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Nashika Bramble, who was sentenced Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019, to life in prison without parole in the deaths of Makayla Roberts, 10, and Hannah Marshall, 8.
Nashika Bramble, who was sentenced Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019, to life in prison without parole in the deaths of Makayla Roberts, 10, and Hannah Marshall, 8.
AP

Telluride, Colorado: A Colorado woman has received life in prison without parole in the deaths of her daughters who were banished to a car without food or water by members of a doomsday religious group because the girls were thought to have been impure.

Nashika Bramble was sentenced Tuesday for killing 10-year-old Makayla Roberts and 8-year-old Hannah Marshall. The sisters' bodies were found in a car parked on a farm near the southwestern Colorado town of Norwood in September 2017.

Authorities said they died of heat, dehydration and starvation.

Bramble was convicted in July of two counts of first-degree murder. She was a member of a religious group that moved to the property earlier in 2017. Other group members also were charged in the girls' deaths.

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