Houston News : La Marque teen gets life in prison for killing his pregnant mother
Chance Michael Moseley was 14 when he stabbed his mother, Nita Marie Moseley, 57 times and strangled her with an electrical cord in September 2015
Chance Michael Moseley was 14 when he stabbed his mother, Nita Marie Moseley, 57 times and strangled her with an electrical cord in September 2015
Photo: Galveston County Sheriff’s Office
Photo: Galveston County Sheriff’s Office
Chance Michael Moseley was 14 when he stabbed his mother, Nita Marie Moseley, 57 times and strangled her with an electrical cord in September 2015
Chance Michael Moseley was 14 when he stabbed his mother, Nita Marie Moseley, 57 times and strangled her with an electrical cord in September 2015
Photo: Galveston County Sheriff’s Office
La Marque teen gets life in prison for killing his pregnant mother
A La Marque teenager who killed his pregnant mother has been convicted of capital murder, according to the Galveston County district attorney’s office.
Chance Michael Moseley was 14 when he stabbed his mother, Nita Marie Moseley, 57 times and strangled her with an electrical cord in September 2015, prosecutors said in a news release. Nita Marie Moseley was 17 weeks pregnant and her unborn child also died. Mosely was charged with capital murder, and a Galveston County jury on Tuesday returned the guilty verdict after deliberating for nearly six hours.
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Moseley, now 19, admitted to the crime and testified that he did it to put her out of her misery. His defense attorneys argued that Moseley did not intend to kill his mother’s unborn child and pointed out that Nita Moseley’s stab wounds were everywhere on her body except for her abdomen. She intended to have an abortion, they said.
Prosecutor Rebecca Russell reminded the jury that a mother’s instinct is to protect her child and said there were “no stab wounds in her abdomen because she’s protecting her baby.”
Moseley was originally accused of the offense in juvenile court, since it happened when he was 14. The Juvenile Court conducted a four-day hearing in 2016 before concluding that Moseley should be tried as an adult.
Since Moseley was younger than 18 when the crime was committed, he is not eligible for life in prison without parole. He faces an automatic life sentence, but the law requires that he be considered for parole after serving 40 years.
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