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Kelci Niemerg
There are too many people in Illinois’ prisons, and there are lots of ways some people will come up with in order to convince authorities that they don’t need to be added to that number.
People will nark, lie, throw money around and do all kinds of things to not have that multi-digit number behind their name for a certain number of months or years.
But up in Effingham County, one young lady who committed a crime of both violence and stupidity tried a novel approach: after her conviction but in advance of her sentencing, she managed to get pregnant. It didn’t work. And you can read it right here at the next Read the Lead, “Motion denied—Effingham judge sends Kelci Niemerg back to prison“:
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EFFINGHAM CO.—On November 8, Effingham Judge Kimberly Koester stood behind a judgment rendered almost six months earlier, when Koester herself sentenced Kelci Niemerg to five years in prison after Niemerg pleaded guilty to one count of Aggravated Battery with Great Bodily Harm.
Niemerg, 26 and originally of Dieterich, has been in custody at Logan Correctional Center for women for the past five months, since June 20 of this year, despite becoming pregnant prior to her incarceration, a move many in Effingham County believed to be intentional, possibly in the futile hope that the judge in the case would have sympathy for her under the pregnancy circumstance.
When Koester denied the defense motion to re-consider Niemerg’s prison sentence, the judge also noted that Niemerg’s sentence would not end until December of 2015.
Koester originally imposed Niemerg’s five-year sentence after hearing the case that involved little Nathan Dill, who was seven months old and in Niemerg’s care in May of 2011 when he suffered serious brain damage after Niemerg threw the infant into a playpen, striking the child’s head on an elliptical (exercise) machine nearby.
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