DES MOINES, Iowa - Nicole Finn will spend the rest of her life in prison.
The West Des Moines mother was sentenced Friday morning in Polk County Court after Judge Karen Romano denied Finn's request for a new attorney, and for a new trial.
WHO TV Channel 13 reports Romano sentenced Nicole Finn to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole .
Finn was convicted of First Degree Murder and three counts of Kidnapping last month. Finn starved her adopted daughter, 16-year-old Natalie Finn, to death . Natalie died in October of 2016 when she was found unresponsive and not breathing on the bare floor of a bedroom at the family’s West Des Moines home.
Investigators say she was wearing an adult diaper and had been lying in her own waste for some time.
Results of an autopsy found Natalie was malnourished and she died of cardiac arrest brought on by starvation. The kidnapping convictions relate to Nicole Finn’s other children.
Finn’s ex-husband Joseph Finn, Natalie's adoptive father is also charged in the case. His trial is scheduled for April.