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Parents Get Probation for Using Daughters Burial Fund to Buy Car PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Thursday, 29 July 2004
July 29, 2004

GREENSBURG (AP) The parents of a Westmoreland County girl murdered by a family friend were sentenced to two years of probation for using money from the girl's burial fund to buy a used car.

John and Annette Bright, of Monessen, were sentenced yesterday for their March guilty pleas to theft charges.

The couple took $4,300 from the fund to buy a car they said they needed to visit their two surviving children, who were taken away from the couple and adopted.

The Bright's eight-year-old daughter, also named Annette, was found shot to death in July 2001 after she was missing for three days.

A former family friend, Charles Koschalk, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and is serving a life sentence for shooting the girl in the face and then burying the girl's body in a shallow grave.

Prosecutors have said Koschalk was allegedly involved in a sexual relationship with Annette's 12-year-old sister and murdered the younger girl out of fear the sister was ending the relationship and that it would be disclosed.

The couple has since paid back about $2,600.

http://kdka.com/local/local_story_211100321.html
 
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