SPOKANE, Wash. — An Airway Heights woman will spend more than three decades in prison for the death of her eight-year-old adopted daughter in 2022.
36-year-old Mandie Miller pleaded guilty to homicide by abuse, assault, and unlawful imprisonment for the death of Meela Rose Miller. She was sentenced Friday to 32 years in prison by a Spokane County Superior Court judge.
Court documents showed Miller and 31-year-old Aleksandr Kurmoyarov had been abusing the victim. It was detailed she was kept restrained in their Airway Heights apartment, beaten with a hammer, and starved. She died in September 2022.
In December 2022, Miller and Kurmoyarov drove her body to South Dakota and tried to have the girl buried at a funeral home there. Funeral home staff became suspicious and contacted law enforcement. They were arrested in South Dakota and extradited back to Spokane.
During sentencing, the judge stated Miller’s abuse and starvation of the child is the worst crime a parent can commit against her child.
Miller pleaded guilty in January 2026, and Kurmoyarov pleaded guilty to murder and other charges in 2023. He’s set to be sentenced February 10.
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