Ten year prison sentence for foster/adoptive mother in child abuse case

Sioux Falls Federal Courthouse. Photo from usmarshals.gov.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) — Ten years in prison for weapons and child abuse for a Wagner woman.  53-year old Tina Sully was indicted by a federal grand jury in February of 2022.  She was found guilty of six counts of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and two counts of Felony Child Abuse, following a four-day jury trial in federal district court in Sioux Falls in September. Sully was a foster and adoptive mother to several children. The jury convicted her of unlawfully assaulting and cruelly punishing two of them, including beating them with belts and hangers and withholding food from them for days, between the years of 2003 and 2021.