SEATTLE – A King County judge has sentenced a 21-year-old Seattle woman to more than 11 years in prison for kicking her boyfriend’s 17-month-old son to death.
Alicia Goemaat was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
Drue Lehto was found dead Sept. 27 in the couple’s Seattle home. Detectives investigated after seeing blood and bruises on the child.
Police say Goemaat initially denied any wrongdoing but later told them she became angry with the toddler and kicked him twice in the stomach. She told police she then put him in a playpen and later discovered he wasn’t breathing.
