(AP) -- A west Michigan woman has been convicted of felony murder in the starvation death of her disabled 21-year-old daughter. A Kent County jury on Monday found 48-year-old Tammy Jefferson of Wyoming guilty in the March 2009 death of her daughter, Taryn.
She faces mandatory life in prison at her sentencing March 22.
Jefferson spent 20 years caring for her daughter, who could not walk, feed herself or communicate after being shaken by her father as a baby. But prosecutors said Taryn's condition started to deteriorate in 2008 after her mother began accessing an average of more than 400 Internet pages daily on her computer and spending hours in chatrooms.
The Grand Rapids Press reports Jefferson's attorney, Donald Pebley, says Taryn may have chosen to stop eating, leading to her death.
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