A 35-year-old woman in Indiana will likely spend the rest of her life behind bars for killing her 3-year-old boy and 1-year-old girl, intentionally drowning the children in her bathtub so she could "send them to heaven." Brittany Medina on Wednesday formally pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two counts of neglect of a dependent resulting in death in the slayings of Madelyn and Jackson Shelton, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Lawrence County Superior Court Judge John M. Plummer III, who presided over the change of plea hearing, wrote that he would take the plea agreement "under advisement pending sentencing" and ordered a pre-sentence investigation report to be submitted to the court next month. If accepted, it appears the terms of the plea agreement would result in two counts o

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