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<p>Crystal Mears listens to testimony during her sentencing for locking her children in a basement without access to food or a proper toilet at Flathead District Court on Thursday. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Crystal Mears listens to testimony during her sentencing for locking her children in a basement without access to food or a proper toilet at Flathead District Court on Thursday. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

November 18, 2016

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Women sent to prison for locking children in basement
November 18, 2016 11:30 a.m.

Women sent to prison for locking children in basement

Flathead District Judge Robert Allison went beyond the bounds of a plea agreement and sent two women to prison Friday for locking their children in the basement.