Mom who claimed sex traffickers took 3-year-old convicted of murder
A West Virginia mom who reportedly claimed her 3-year-old daughter was abducted by sex traffickers was convicted in her murder.
Lena Marie Lunsford Conaway, 35, was found guilty Monday in Lewis County Circuit Court on charges stemming from the 2011 disappearance of her daughter, Aliayah Lunsford, The Exponent Telegram reported.
The jury convicted Conaway of child abuse resulting in injury and concealment of a dead body, murder of a child by parent by failure to provide necessities and death of a child by parent by child abuse.
Her two older daughters reportedly testified that she beat the little girl over the head with a board then put her body in a clothes hamper.
They claimed the mom disposed of Aliayah’s body in a shallow grave in the woods. The toddler’s remains were never found.
The jurors recommended Tuesday that the mom serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.