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$5 Million Bond for Mother of Boy Found Dead in Oven.

A judge in Mississippi has set a $5 million bond for a mother who was arrested after police found her 3-year-old son’s burned body in an oven.

Terrie Robinson, 24, of Greenville, has been charged with murder in the death of her son, Tristan Robinson.

Officers with the Greenville Police Department discovered the child’s body Wednesday after they responded to an emergency call. Authorities have declined to provide additional details on the call, citing the ongoing investigation, The Associated Press reported. City Judge Michael Prewitt set the bond amount Thursday during Robinson’s arraignment.According to Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson, the child’s body had been burned and was warm when it was removed from the electric oven. The coroner also noted the boy had suffered some sort of trauma to the head, but it is unclear if the injuries caused his death.

“This is a really sad moment for me. I’ve seen a lot of things, but this is one that will stick in my memory for a long, long time,” Johnson told the AP.

An autopsy that is being conducted on the child today is expected to shed more light on the case and reveal whether he was dead before he was placed in the oven, police said.

Brett Favre’s Sister, Brandi, Arrested in Meth Lab Raid.

Brandi Favre, the younger sister of future Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre, was arrested in a raid on a suspected meth lab in Mississippi on Wednesday, a police official confirmed to FanHouse.

Investigators arrested Brandi Favre and four others after Hancock County narcotics officers discovered the active meth lab in a condo complex in Diamondhead, Miss., according to the Biloxi Sun Herald. The five were taken to a hospital for decontamination and then booked.

“She was here, at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Maj. Matt Karl, director of narcotics for Hancock County, told the newspaper.

Narcotics officers were still on scene investigating Wednesday night. They reportedly found methamphetamine cooking in the bathtub along with nine grams of the drug, worth about $150 on the street.

The site of the lab is less than 10 miles from Kiln, where Brett Favre and his siblings were raised. Favre currently lives about 85 miles north of Diamondhead on a ranch in Hattiesburg, Miss.

While not of the criminal variety, Brett Favre faces his own legal woes.

Two women who worked for the New York Jets as massage therapists claimed via a lawsuit filed earlier this month that Favre sexually harassed them when he was a member of the team in 2008. Favre also faces a possible lawsuit by Jen Sterger, a broadcaster who allegedly received inappropriate texts and pictures from Favre the same year.

The NFL investigated the incident and fined Favre $50,000.

Scott Sisters on Release From Mississippi Prison: ‘We’re So Grateful’.

Jamie and Gladys Scott, the Mississippi sisters who became a cause celebre among civil rights activists, were released from prison today after serving 16 years for an armed robbery that netted $11.

Finally free today, they thanked everybody who helped secure their release from prison, from Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who suspended their life sentences last month, to God.

“We’re so grateful,” Jamie Scott, 38, said in a tearful news conference today in Mississippi. “I never thought this day would come.” But, she said, “I kept the faith. I do know God will show up.”

Gladys Scott, 36, said she was thankful as well. “Praise God,” she said.

The sisters’ life sentences were suspended by the Republican governor with the unusual condition that one sister donate her kidney to the other, who is sick and needs a transplant.Their attorney, Chokwe Lumumba, said the sisters were exuberant as they were releIn 1994, the Mississippi women were convicted of armed robbery for hitting two men on the head with the butt of a shotgun in Forest, Miss., and stealing $11. For years, activists have said the sisters received such harsh sentences because they are black. Jamie Scott said she would continue to speak out on behalf of other women in the prison. “I won’t leave them behind. I will be their voice,” she said today.

Jamie Scott is on dialysis and needs a kidney transplant. She said today that she hopes to receive better medical treatment outside of prison. Gladys had already agreed to donate one of her kidneys to Jamie when Barbour included the stipulation as part of their release, but his decision still raised some eyebrows. In December, Lumumba told AOL News that while the arrangement “does sound a little barbaric,” Gladys would have donated the kidney anyway.

Lumumba said the sisters must undergo more medical tests before the transplant can take place. He said it’s not clear how the operation will be paid for, either. “We still need Medicaid to handle the bill,” he said. “Or we’ll be looking for donors to help us.” ased to their mother and children from a prison in Pearl, Miss., at 8 a.m.

“They’re feeling great. This is beautiful,” Lumumba told AOL News today by phone. “I feel like a young fella myself.”

Kidney Donation Set as Condition of Miss. Sisters’ Parole.

If two Mississippi sisters serving life in prison for an armed robbery that netted $11 want to go free, one will have to donate a kidney to the other.

Gov. Haley Barbour has pardoned Gladys and Jamie Scott, black women whose case has been a cause celebre among civil rights activists. But to be released, Gladys, 36, must donate a kidney to her 38-year-old sister, Jamie, who requires dialysis and needs a transplant.

There was no grumbling about the odd condition of the Scotts’ release. Their lawyer called the governor’s decision a victory and noted that Gladys Scott had already planned to donate a kidney to her sister.”It’s been a long time coming. I talked to Gladys on the phone and she was feeling wonderful. I’m sure Jamie is too,” Chokwe Lumumba, the sisters’ attorney, told AOL News by phone today. He said that while including the kidney as a condition of release “does sound a little barbaric,” Gladys would have donated the organ anyway.

The women had each served 16 years of their sentences and were eligible for parole in 2014, but state prison officials said they no longer considered them a threat to the public. In 1994, the pair were sentenced to life terms after they were convicted of armed robbery for hitting two men in the head with a shotgun in Forest, Miss., and stealing $11.Civil rights activists hailed the latest development and had long rallied around the women, arguing that their unusually long sentences were motivated by race.

NAACP President Ben Jealous tweeted his approval Wednesday night. “Spoke to Governor Barbour today, The Scott Sisters will be freed!!!!” he wrote. In an rare moment, the NAACP president praised the governor outright. “This is a shining example of how governors should use their commutation powers,” he told The Washington Post. Earlier this year, activists marched on the state Capitol to push for the women’s’ release.Barbour said the release was an early parole, not a pardon, and noted that Jamie Scott’s dialysis was costing the state nearly $200,000 each year. “The Mississippi Department of Corrections believes the sisters no longer pose a threat to society,” Barbour said in a statement. “Their incarceration is no longer necessary for public safety or rehabilitation, and Jamie Scott’s medical condition creates a substantial cost to the State of Mississippi.”

The women are expected to be released within the next 45 days.

Barbour, who is considering a run for president in 2012, announced news of the sisters’ parole only days after his comments about the civil rights movement sparked anger. In an interview with The Weekly Standard, Barbour credited the white Citizens Council with helping to rid his hometown of Yazoo City, Miss., of the Ku Klux Klan. White Citizens Councils were civic organizations created to prevent racial integration. Barbour later backtracked and called the groups — along with their opposition to integration — “indefensible.”