Crime & Safety

Woman Sentenced To 80 Years For Sexually Abusing Child

Angeline Feazelle, formerly of Jarrettsville, will have to register as a sex offender if she is released from jail.

A former Jarrettsville woman was sentenced Wednesday to serve 80 years in prison for sexually abusing a young girl while the child was between the ages of 5 and 6.

Angeline K. Feazelle, 30, formerly of Jarrettsville, was found guilty of two counts of child abuse and a single count of child abuse as a continuing course of conduct by a Harford County jury in January, according to a release from the Harford County State's Attorney's Office.

Feazelle and her boyfriend, Jeremy “Shane” Cochran, lived in the same Jarrettsville household with the girl at the time of the abuse, the release states.

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In March, Cochran was also sentenced to serve 80 years in prison following his conviction on similar charges.

In 2008, the Harford County Child Advocacy Center opened the case after the girl alerted someone to the abuse. The couple was charged in 2012 once the girl was able to give more information to investigators, according to the state's attorney's office.

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At sentencing, the girls' father said Feazelle, "took away his daughter’s future by taking away her trust that can never be given back to her," according to the release.

Deputy State's Attorney Diane Tobin asked the judge to impose the maximum sentence given the "horrific nature of the abuse," and that the girl, "had no alternative but to go back to that home every day to be abused by Feazelle and her boyfriend, Mr. Cochran," the release states.

Harford County Judge Stephen Waldron agreed with Tobin's request and imposed the maximum 80-year sentence, according to the state's attorney's office. If released, Feazelle will be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life.

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