Vanessa Jenkins, the mother of 3-year-old Lane E. Cullen, pleaded guilty to Criminally Negligent Homicide, a class 5 felony, Tuesday in a case stemming from the 2018 Christmas Eve house fire that killed her son.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement and the District Attorney\u2019s office alleged that Ms. Jenkins negligently and unreasonably placed the child in a situation that resulted in his death, according to a press release from the 14th Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough the criminal process cannot bring Lane back to us, this plea offers a measure of justice for Lane and his family,\u201d said Assistant District Attorney Matthew Tjosvold.<\/p>\n
Detective Norm Rimmer of the Craig Police Department lead the investigation. <\/p>\n
\u201cNorm Rimmer did a great job for Lane in this case, and we thank him\u201d said Assistant District Attorney Matthew Tjosvold. Investigators from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the 14th<\/sup> Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office, and the Craig Fire Rescue also assisted in the case. <\/p>\n Jenkins will have a sentencing hearing in the Moffat County District Court on February 10, 2020 at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n This is a developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vanessa Jenkins, the mother of 3-year-old Lane E. Cullen, pleaded guilty to Criminally Negligent Homicide, a class 5 felony, Tuesday in a case stemming from the 2018 Christmas Eve house fire that killed her son. Law enforcement and the District Attorney\u2019s office alleged that Ms. Jenkins negligently and unreasonably placed the child in a situation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 12:03:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}