GRAND JUNCTION | One of five people charged in the deaths of two girls on a southwestern Colorado farm has reached a plea deal which may allow him to go free within a year.
Farm owner Frederick “Alec” Blair, the newest member of a doomsday group blamed for the girls’ death, was charged with two counts of child abuse resulting in death and being an accessory. The Daily Sentinel reports he accepted a deal with prosecutors Thursday to drop the child abuse counts in exchange for a guilty plea on the accessory charge.
Investigators believe the group’s leader ordered that the girls be kept in a car without food or water for days on the farm near Norwood as they awaited the apocalypse.
The others are scheduled to go on trial later this year.
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Information from: The Daily Sentinel, https://www.gjsentinel.com