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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

• Lytle term is longest ever under abuse statute

    January 9, 2009 in City on Page A1 Jonathan Lytle, convicted by a Spokane jury of homicide by abuse last year for the death of his 4-year-old daughter, was sentenced Thursday to 75 years in prison – effectively …

• 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 …

• Girl’s abuse unnoticed by neighbors, nurses

  November 5, 2008 in City on Page B1 Although there were troubling clues, 4-year-old Summer Phelps’ severe abuse remained invisible to the nurses who visited her family and went unreported by the residents of the Spokane apartment building …

• Father didn’t kill Summer, attorneys say

  October 21, 2008 in City on Page B2 Attorneys for Jonathan Lytle, accused of homicide by abuse in the death of his 4-year-old daughter, said he was not in the room the day the girl was repeatedly submerged …

• Judge denies Lytle trial venue change

  September 10, 2008 in City on Page B2 Jonathan Lytle likely can get a fair trial in Spokane despite extensive news coverage of the alleged homicide by abuse of his 4-year-old daughter, a Spokane County Superior Court judge …

• Father gets competency hearing

  May 10, 2008 in City on Page B3 The father of 4-year-old torture-beating victim Summer Phelps is demanding a court hearing on his mental competence to stand trial on homicide-by-abuse charges. Jonathan Lytle refused at a Superior Court …