CHICKASHA, OK. (AP) - The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has rejected a parole request from a Grady County woman who was convicted in the death of her 13-month-old daughter.

Mary Ann Leadford was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after she was convicted in 1998 of first-degree murder in the death of Tessa Leadford. Prosecutors say Leadford allowed her husband, James Patrick Malicoat, to violently beat the toddler over a period of 19 days. Mary Ann Leadford was 20 years old when Tessa died in February 1997.

The Express-Star reports that the parole board denied Leadford's request at its meeting last month.

Malicoat was convicted of first-degree murder and received a death sentence. He was executed in 2006.

(Information in the following story is from: The Express-Star, http://www.chickashanews.com)

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