Woman guilty of raping her children sentenced to 40 years

MURFREESBORO – A woman convicted in March of raping her children more than a decade ago was sentenced Wednesday.

Judge Royce Taylor sentenced Angela Elizabeth Montgomery to 40 years in prison.

Montgomery was found guilty in early March on six counts of rape of a child. Montgomery was charged with raping her own two children multiple times when she lived in Rutherford County more than a decade ago.

Montgomery was indicted in December 2012 after Murfreesboro Police Department detectives were contacted about the alleged rapes and assaults.

She was initially charged with two counts of child rape by Murfreesboro Police Detective Wayne Lawson after her two children gave the detective "detailed statements" about rapes and sexual assaults they said they suffered at the hands of their mother when they lived in Murfreesboro more a decade ago.

She was charged with 20 counts of rape of a child, six counts of rape, 12 counts of incest and two counts of coercion of a witness, according to court records.

Montgomery was extradited from Oregon, where she now lives, to Murfreesboro where she posted a $10,000 bond.

In March, child-rape victim Alan Von Webb said he was relieved by the jury's decision.

Von Webb gave approval to the Daily News Journal to be publicly identified as a victim in the case. The newspaper typically does not name victims of sexual assault.

"She can't hurt anyone anymore," Von Webb told the Daily News Journal.

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