The adoptive grandmother of a teen who starved to death in 2017, Carla Raye Bousman, 64, briefly escaped prison in May, according to court records.

Bousman is one-year into a 20-year prison sentence for failing to seek medical attention for her 16-year-old adopted granddaughter, Sabrina Ray, who starved to death in 2017. Bousman pleaded guilty to neglect of a dependent person, accessory after the fact, obstruction of prosecution, two counts of false imprisonment and two counts of child endangerment.

Court records say Bousman had left the prison grounds at 7:49 a.m.May 2 and was headed east into Mitchellville. She was apprehended by staff a half-mile from the prison where she was returned.

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Bousman has been charged with escape. Court documents do not show if a trial date has been set.

Bousman was caring for Sabrina Ray and her two adopted sisters at their home in Perry on May 12, 2017 — the day of Sabrina's death — but she didn't seek medical attention when she realized Sabrina was in distress, she admitted in Dallas County court Friday.

"She had woke up vomiting and had soiled herself and her clothes and I just thought that she wasn’t feeling well and I gave her a shower and cleaned her all up," Bousman said.

The court ordered that Bousman was moved from the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women to the Polk County Jail on or before June 11

The Register's Stephen Gruber-Miller contributed to this story.