JURY RETURNS MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR TIAUNDRA CHRISTON
(Galveston Co. Jail)
A College Station woman has been sentenced to the maximum punishment in the death of her daughter.
TiAundra Christon was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison after she was found guilty of placing her deceased daughter’s body in a Galveston County lake in 2018.
She was found guilty last week after the jury deliberated just 45 minutes on a charge of tampering with a human corpse. That same jury deliberated for less than an hour on the punishment.
Investigators said 1-year-old Hazana Anderson was beaten to death in a Houston motel room prior to being placed in the water by Christon and her boyfriend Kenny Hewett.
Hewett pleaded guilty to the same charge last year in Galveston County and received a 20-year sentence. Due to the plea, he can’t appeal the case, but he’s up for parole as early as this coming February.
The charge of tampering with a human corpse was the first these two were tried for, and they received the maximum penalty for that. Since the child was killed in Houston, charges for murder or whatever the district attorney chooses to proceed upon can be brought for that. The disposal of the child’s body was done in Galveston County, and so two separate jurisdictions could charge for two separate crimes. It would not be unlikely that when murder charges are brought, she could receive 40 or 50 or 60 years, or maybe even life in prison. I do agree that the idea of a 20-year sentence and two years served should make someone eligible for parole is rather far-fetched.
You have got to be kidding me!! 20 years is a slap on the hand for this crime! The pain and the torture this little girl endured is heart breaking!! No justice was done here!!
I was a member of the jury for the mother we gave her the max amount allowed 20years with a 10,00$ fine we weren’t able to try her for capital murder because Harris County needs to do that we were on trial for tampering with evidence by disposal of hazana in Moses lake
And how is he up for parole ALREADY???
I agree 100% …justice, my foot!
Hewett shouldn’t be allowed to be considered for parole that soon. Needs to serve two-thirds of the sentece given. Considering a child is dead because of him and the mother.
Maximum? Are you kidding me. The little girl suffered the MAXIMUM……. death……..so her MAXIMUM should be if not death…..life without parole. What is up with our judicial system?