SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman is seeking parole after serving 10 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend during an argument about a pagan ceremony.
Monika Dilmaghanian of Draper was sentenced to up to life in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the 2007 killing of 24-year-old Nathan Harris at a campground near Ogden.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://tinyurl.com/y7w7twvl) she told the state parole board Tuesday she’s been sober more than a decade and is a different person now.
She told arresting officers she stabbed Harris as her three young children watched during an argument over a knife “cleansing ceremony.”
Her lawyer said in 2007 he wanted her to go to trial for manslaughter, but she agreed to a plea deal for murder because she didn’t want her children to have to testify against her.