Crystal Anderson, shown here with her attorney Michael Goldberg, reacts after being sentenced to eight years in prison for severely abusing her boyfriend's 4-year-old son last year. (Cory Shaffer, ...

JACKSON — Standing outside the courthouse Thursday afternoon, Kian Stevens' mother, Crystal Anderson, declined to comment on jurors' decision to convict her former boyfriend of second degree murder.

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