“I’m not a monster,” a 36-year-old former Utah day care provider said before being sentenced to prison for up to life for the 2014 death of an 8-month-old boy in her care.
Tisha Lynn Morley — who operated Tots & Tykes Day Care in Roy — also told the court on Wednesday: “I’m not a terrible person. I’m a person who made a terrible mistake.”
Morley was convicted in May by a 2nd District Court jury of first-degree felony child abuse homicide for the Feb. 19, 2014 death of Lincoln Penland, who was fatally injured while at Morley’s in-home day care.