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<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; A woman who admitted she kept mentally disabled adults captive in the basement of a home in Philadelphia and in other states for their disability checks has been sentenced to life in prison.</p><p>Linda Weston was sentenced Thursday to a life term plus 80 years.</p><p><a href="http://bit.ly/1RYxkka" target="_blank">Philly.com reports</a> she apologized in court saying she believes &#8220;God knows what happened.&#8221;</p><p>U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe responded that a lot of people in the courtroom know what happened, too. Several victims spoke at the sentencing.</p><p>Weston pleaded guilty in September to all 196 counts against her including murder and kidnapping in a deal that spared her a possible death sentence.</p><p>Weston was arrested in October 2011 when a landlord found four bedraggled adults locked in a squalid boiler room and called police.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">This undated file photo provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Linda Ann Weston. Weston, who admitted she kept mentally disabled adults captive in the basement of a home in Philadelphia and in other states for their disability checks, was sentenced Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, to a life term plus 80 years. Weston pleaded guilty in September to all 196 counts against her including murder and kidnapping in a deal that spared her a possible death sentence. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/web1_weston.jpg</photo0><caption0>This undated file photo provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Linda Ann Weston. Weston, who admitted she kept mentally disabled adults captive in the basement of a home in Philadelphia and in other states for their disability checks, was sentenced Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, to a life term plus 80 years. Weston pleaded guilty in September to all 196 counts against her including murder and kidnapping in a deal that spared her a possible death sentence. </caption0><photoCredit0>Philadelphia Police Department via AP </photoCredit0></div></div>
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Woman who held disabled people captive gets life in prison