Kimberly Cook 'should never be able to have kids,' sister says

Kimberly Cook was sentenced to 37 years to life in prison by Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. Wiseman called Cook’s crimes “reprehensible and beyond imagination.”

Jim Witmer/Staff photo by Jim Witmer Kimberly Cook was sentenced to 37 years to life in prison by Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. Wiseman called Cook’s crimes “reprehensible and beyond imagination.”

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By Lou Grieco, Staff Writer Updated 10:07 PM Thursday, October 8, 2009

DAYTON — Amy Cook Wolfe has a promise for Kimberly Cook, the half-sister who killed their youngest half-sister: When you get your first parole hearing, she will be there.

“I don’t have to see her for 36 years,” said Wolfe, 21, referring to the 36-year prison sentence Kimberly was given Thursday, Oct. 8.

A Montgomery County Common Pleas jury convicted Cook, 23, of murder and other charges in the July 21, 2008, death of 3-year-old Hope Cook and the abuse of their half-brother, Dexter.

Wolfe said she will be attending any parole hearing “to make sure that she never sees the light of day.”

Wolfe, who was raised in Arcanum by her mother, shares the same father as Kimberly, Hope and Dexter. Wolfe said she has never been close to Kimberly, whom she didn’t meet until Wolfe was 8. She said Kimberly was cruel to her, even spreading a rumor that Wolfe was pregnant when she was 13.

The ordeal has fractured some family bonds, but strengthened others. Wolfe said she has become very close to her father, who has had drug and alcohol problems throughout his life and was in prison until three weeks before Hope’s death.

Some family members still support Kimberly, who claimed Hope died as a result of a fall in the bathtub.

Wolfe, a student at Sinclair Community College, said the experience caused her to change her academic major from social work — she is still angry that Kimberly had been awarded custody of the two children — to criminal justice.

She also said she was happy with the sentence, which would keep Kimberly imprisoned during her child-bearing years.

“Kimberly should never be able to have kids,” Wolfe said.

Keep reading: Kimberly Cook sentenced to 36 years to life for abusing children, killing one

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