Amanda Lyn Walker, Enabling Child Abuse, Oklahoma 2021

State: Oklahoma
Category: Violent Crime
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Tulsa Woman Sentenced for Enabling Child Abuse

A 42-year-old Tulsa woman, Amanda Lyn Walker, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for enabling the abuse of a 3-year-old child in Indian Country. The sentencing took place on Monday in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

Walker’s boyfriend, Craig Allan Morrison, 37, was also found guilty of two counts of child abuse in Indian Country. Morrison is scheduled to be sentenced on January 14.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, a federal jury found Walker guilty of two counts of enabling acts of child abuse in Indian Country on June 23, 2021. The jury received evidence describing two separate instances of child abuse involving the 3-year-old child.

The first incident took place on or about December 20, 2019, when other family members observed and photographed a hand-shaped bruise on the child’s face. Walker lied to family and law enforcement about the abuse inflicted on the child by Morrison.

The second incident took place on or about February 18, 2020, when the victim was taken to the Saint Francis Hospital Pediatric Emergency Room with injuries and extensive bruising to the child’s head, back, shoulder, abdomen, buttocks, and leg. A pediatrician who treated the victim testified that the laboratory tests indicated liver and pancreatic injuries and that the child’s injuries showed the child had suffered blunt force trauma and were the result of child abuse.

Walker was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison followed by 5 years of supervised release. The FBI and Tulsa Police Department conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Melody Noble Nelson and Chantelle D. Dial prosecuted the case.

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