The 2016 guilty plea

On 5 July 2016, the Greene County Prosecuting Attorney announced that Gypsy-Rose Blanchard had pleaded guilty to an amended charge of second-degree murder for acting with Nicholas Godejohn in her mother’s killing. She received a ten-year sentence; probation was denied.

What the announcement says

The prosecutor stated that the sentence accounted for the abuse she had experienced. The announcement also explained that she would need to serve 85% of the sentence before parole consideration.

Original document

Read the prosecutor’s one-page announcement (PDF). It records the plea and sentence on the day they were announced. It is a prosecutor’s public statement, rather than a transcript of the hearing.

Related pages

• Case overview.
• Godejohn’s separate prosecution.
• Prison and release.