GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK)- A Wrightstown woman was sentenced Wednesday, after being convicted of not feeding her five-year-old son.
Kimberly Fahrenkrug was sentenced to nine months in jail, placed on probation for five years, and ordered to attend parenting classes for her actions.
Judge John Zakowski also ordered Fahrenkrug to perform 100 hours of community service.
Fahrenkrug previously pleaded no contest to a charge of neglecting a child with a consequence of great bodily harm.
Fahrenkrug’s husband, Bradley, will be sentenced June 25 on a similar count.
The husband and wife were charged last July after doctors noticed their son only weighed 29 pounds.
In court Wednesday, Fahrenkrug said her family adopted the boy when he was 2, but the child was showing signs of behavioral issues.
“We are just regular people and we were doing the best we could in the situation at hand,” she said. “When a social worker suggested we absolve the adoption, we continued to try to help him because we love him and we were committed to giving him our best. As parents, we didn’t see that as an option. I am so deeply sorry if that made his problems worse. We love him and the last thing we wanted to do was hurt him.”
However, police noted the child, “has not shown any of the behavior claimed by Kimberly and Bradley and appears to be a normal 5-year-old with appropriate behaviors,” the complaint states.
