Adoptive mother gets nine years for abuse
A Silver Spring woman who beat and locked her 12-year-old adoptive daughter in a room was sentenced to nine years in prison. Police said Hyacinth Morgan, 48, tied the girl and beat her before locking her up in a basement room. Police learned of the abuse after the girl escaped and was found wandering the streets after midnight with bruises on her face and no shoes.
Doctor owed $16 million in taxes
A Potomac cardiologist was convicted of not paying more than $16 million in income taxes. Pradeep Srivastava, 50, who had offices in Greenbelt and Oxon Hill, did not report more than $40 million in profits from stock trading during the late 1990s and filed a false tax return in 2000, prosecutors said. Srivastava faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
