A St. Louis woman faces five years in prison for starving her child.

(AP) – A St. Louis-area woman accused of starving her 2-month-old son has been sentenced to five years in prison. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 27-year-old Makayla Hill of Bridgeton was sentenced Tuesday after she pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of child endangerment in the 2018 death of her son, Samuel Williamson Jr. In exchange for her plea, prosecutors dropped a charge of second-degree murder. In September 2018, Bridgeton police were called to a hotel where Hill was living with the infant and another child to report that Samuel was unresponsive. The baby was later pronounced dead at a hospital, and an autopsy showed the 6-pound infant died of severe malnutrition.