Fry Gets 40 Years, 20 to Serve in Prison

North Kingstown resident Kimberly Fry, convicted of strangling her 8-year-old daughter in 2008, was sentenced Tuesday in Providence Superior Court.

According to WPRI, Fry was sentenced to 40 years with 20 years to serve. On Oct. 6, 2011, Fry was – a charge with a maximum sentence of life in prison – in the death her 8-year-old daughter, Camden, in August 2008. Fry strangled her daughter in their home on Ricci Lane in North Kingstown after the girl threw a tantrum over taking a bath. Fry's first attorneys asserted that while trying to perform a restraint technique on the girl.

The road to Fry's sentencing has been laden with postponements. Her original sentencing date was set for Feb. 17, but was delayed after multiple changes to her legal representation and an outburst in Providence Superior Court where she declared, "I am not a murderess."