Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mother of Kelsey Smith-Briggs will not be getting any time off her 27-year prison sentence for enabling child abuse. Raye Dawn ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Nearly 20 years later, a high-profile child abuse case is back in the headlines. On June 3, Raye Dawn Smith will ask the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board to commute her sentence ...

A woman convicted of enabling child abuse in 2007 is looking to get out of jail early, but the family of the abused toddler is holding a protest in an attempt to make sure she serves her sentence. Two ...

The Pardon and Parole Board denied the commutation of a Meeker mother, Raye Dawn Smith, who asked the state to let her out of prison ten years early on Tuesday. Three members voted against early ...

A Lincoln County father continued his fight for his daughter nearly two decades after her death. Kelsey Smith Briggs' mother was convicted in 2007 for enabling child abuse that led to the toddler's ...

Raye Dawn Smith, a Meeker mother serving a 27-year sentence for enabling child abuse, will ask the state tomorrow for early release after serving 17 years. Her daughter, Kelsey Smith-Briggs, was ...

The state of Oklahoma paid $525,000 Monday to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit over the murder of Kelsey Smith-Briggs, and a private agency paid $100,000. A federal judge Monday approved the $625,000 ...

Two years after her death, Kelsey Smith-Briggs' tragic and untimely end continues to haunt our collective conscience. And it should.Oklahomans were again reminded of the 2-year-old's short, tortured ...

The mother of Kelsey Smith-Briggs will not be getting any time off her 27-year prison sentence for enabling child abuse. Raye Dawn Smith, now 44, complained her punishment was excessive and was ...