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Kendra Meaker set to be sentenced today

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By: Meredith Dennis

mdennis@cbs4qc.com

Setting off a false Amber Alert and leaving her newborn baby in a ditch.  

Kendra  Meaker is set to be sentenced today.  

In court in January Kendra  Meaker plead guilty to charges of obstruction of justice and endangering the life or health of a child.  

This after she left her then one month old baby in a ditch.  

The 19-year-old told authorities in September that someone abducted her daughter Mia outside a Toulon post office.  

Officers and community members searched the Toulon area for hours, eventually finding Mia alive in a ditch.

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