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• Phelps report urges agencies to share data

    February 28, 2009 in City on Page A1 Concerns about Summer Phelps – the 4-year-old who died in Spokane in 2007 at the hands of her father and stepmother – were reported eight times to Washington’s Child Protective …

• Abusive stepmother gets 62.5 years in girl’s death

  January 10, 2009 in City on Page A1 Adriana Lytle, severely abused as a child herself, was sentenced to 62 1/2 years in prison Friday for her role in a cycle of beatings and torture that killed her … 3

• Adriana Lytle sentenced to 62 years

  January 9, 2009 in City Adriana Lytle received a 62.5-year sentence today for her part in the death of her stepdaughter, 4-year-old Summer Phelps. 3

• Defense says stepmother deserves break

    January 9, 2009 in City on Page A1 Adriana Lytle’s addicted mother injected methamphetamine when Adriana was in the womb. Her mother’s boyfriends and her father sexually abused her. She suffered from mental illness and abused drugs. She … 1

• Summer’s father to receive sentence

    January 8, 2009 in City on Page A1 There’s a difference of nearly 50 years in the sentencing recommendations for Jonathan Lytle, the man convicted in November of homicide by abuse in the torture death of his daughter, …

• Prosecutors seeking 75 years for Lytle

    January 7, 2009 in City There’s a nearly 50-year difference in the sentencing recommendations for Jonathan Lytle, the father convicted last November of homicide by abuse in the torture death of his daughter, 4-year old …

• Expert says hair came from Summer’s head

  November 7, 2008 in City on Page B2 Red hair found by police in the Spokane apartment where 4-year-old Summer Phelps died was mostly pulled from her head and matched her DNA, a forensic expert testified Thursday in …