Plea deal reached in local murder case

Marianne Bordt, the German grandmother charged with drowning her grandson at a rental home on St. George Island in 2010, will not face the death penalty but will likely spend the rest of her days in prison.
Circuit Judge Angela Dempsey accepted a plea agreement today that will keep the 73 year old in prison for the next 21 and a half years.

Mrs. Bordt was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse for drowning her 5-year-old grandson, Camden Hiers in the bathtub of a beach house in January 2010.

Sheriff’s officials said at the time that Mrs. Bordt killed her grandson to keep him from growing up in a divorced home.

Under the plea agreement, Mrs Bordt was allowed to plead to a lesser second-degree murder charge.

The plea deal was accepted over the objections of the boy's father, who wanted a longer prison sentence.

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