German woman's plea accepted in grandson's death

APALACHICOLA, Fla. (AP) — A German woman showed no emotion Monday as a judge sentenced her to more than 21 years in prison after she pleaded no contest to drowning her 5-year-old grandson in the bathtub of a rented beach house.

The judge accepted a plea deal for Marianne Bordt, 73, over objections from the boy’s father, who wanted more prison time. Bordt, of Nufringen, Germany, had faced a potential death sentence for first-degree murder, but she was allowed to plead to a lesser second-degree charge for killing Camden Hiers in January 2010.