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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman convicted of third-degree murder in the smothering death of her 3-year-old daughter will spend 20 to 40 years in prison. An Allegheny County jury convicted 37-year-old Adriene Williams in August. Prosecutors contend the Wilkinsburg woman somehow asphyxiated Adrionna Williams — they never said where or how — before leaving the girl's body in a wooded area of Swissvale in June 2015. Williams' attorney argued the failure to pinpoint exactly where and how the girl died meant Williams shouldn't be convicted. But prosecutors say surveillance video and cellphone records show Williams drove to and from the area where the girl's body was found despite claiming she drove to work in a different area while the girl was at her grandmother's house.

Pennsylvania woman gets 20 to 40 years in toddler's death