Mom who turned off disabled daughter’s oxygen alarm while getting ‘blacked out’ drunk learns her fate

Elise Nelson (Stearns County Jail).

Elise Nelson (Stearns County Jail).

A 39-year-old mother in Minnesota will spend more than a decade behind bars for killing her disabled 13-year-old daughter, turning off the child’s oxygen monitoring device and allowing her to die while getting “blacked out” drunk on vodka.

Stearns County District Court Judge Heidi E. Schultz on Monday ordered Elise C. Nelson to serve a sentence of 22 years (261 months) in a state correctional facility in the 2020 slaying of young Kylie Larson, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show. She is also required to pay more than $12,000 in restitution.

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