Kimberly Forder Sentenced to 27 Months
Prosecutors had wanted a much longer sentence but Kimberly Forder got off with just 27 months under a plea deal. With credit for time served she will soon be released from jail.
She had been charged in the death by abuse of one of her foster children, Christopher. (Abuse allegations were detailed here.)
She was given a short sentence largely because another adult son in jail for the rape of a family member recanted previous sworn testimony against her.
A 24-year-old Seabeck man who’d agreed to testify in the homicide by abuse trial of his mother in exchange for a shorter sentence in his own criminal case has recanted on previous statements, according to Kitsap County prosecutors.
As a result, Michael V. Forder, 24, was given an 8 1/2-year sentence for second-degree rape of a family member Feb. 26 in Judge M. Karlynn Haberly’s court — instead of the 36-month reduced sentence prosecutors had recommended in exchange for his testimony at his mother’s trial.
His mother, Kimberly Ann Forder, 44, is charged with the homicide by abuse of her 8-year-old adopted son Christopher Forder in 2002 — in incidents Sheriff Steve Boyer called “torture” — and is slated to go on trial in April.
The Forders worked as Christian missionaries in Africa and had several adopted children.
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