Ashlen Zitel, 28, (left) was sentenced Wednesday to six years of probation for child abuse and a separate sexual assault charge. Her boyfriend, Austin Meyn, 27, (right) who has previously pleaded ...

Background: Beatrice Community Hospital in Beatrice, Neb. (Google Maps). Inset (top): Ashlen Zitel (Gage County Sheriff’s ...

A woman in Nebraska has been sentenced to probation after she let her boyfriend suffocate and kill her 4-month-old baby boy.

Ashlen Zitel, 28, was sentenced to six years of probation and 120 days in jail, to be served 30 days at a time between 2027 and 2030, with the opportunity to have it waived, according to KOLN.

Ashlen Zitel of Beatrice was sentenced on Wednesday in Gage County District Court to six years' probation and jail time on a pair of child abuse charges, including one involving the death of her 4 ...

During these calls, the two talked about the case. Austin and his girlfriend, Ashlen Zitel, 28, were arrested after Beatrice Police and Fire and Rescue were dispatched to a home on Aug. 15 ...

A judge sentenced 28-year-old Ashlen Zitel on Wednesday to serve six years probation on child abuse and sexual assault charges after her boyfriend suffocated her baby to death in August ...

Those efforts led to arrest warrants for Ashlen Zitel and Austin Meyn, both 27. Zitel and Meyn were arrested on those warrants Saturday. Zitel was charged with child abuse; Meyn was charged with ...

The state says Brady Swavely, 28, wiped the personal cellphone of Austin Meyn after Meyn was arrested with Ashlen Zitel on Sept. 7, 2024, following the August death of her ...

‘Happy go-lucky’ toddler Andrew Dean Zitel was three months and 22 days old when he died last summer. The boy’s mother Ashlen Zitel, 28, had come home on 15 August to find him not breathing ...