#CapCut #police #dispatcher #scary #call #abducted #man #car A woman was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for her role in a kidnapping and beating. Debra Oliver, 53, was sentenced after a jury convicted her in October of first-degree kidnapping, attempted murder and willful injury. Oliver and a co-conspirator, John Deering, were arrested for kidnapping Ronald Carris, 61, and putting him in the trunk of a black Impala in April. Police found Carris, also of Des Moines, in Prospect Park after he'd been beaten with a brick. The beating has left Carris with brain injuries and in need of 24-hour care, his stepdaughter Jackie Martin testified. Martin looked directly at Oliver during her sentencing, telling her that the beating left Carris unable to attend his step-grandson's football games or have conversations. However, Martin said she believed Oliver was likely driven by her addictions at the time of the crime. Oliver's defense attorney, Kimberly Smith, told Polk County District Court Judge Karen Romano that Oliver has a history of drug and alcohol abuse. "I pray for your soul, because I know that you have to have a lost soul," Martin said. "I'm going to forgive you, because I'm sure that's not really who the core of you is, but that's not what you've shown." Oliver sat through the hearing in a Polk County Jail uniform and apologized when Romano gave her a chance to speak. "(Carris) didn't deserve what happened to him and for that I'm remorseful," she said. Carris notified police of his kidnapping through a 911 call he placed from the trunk of the car. In the recording, first made public this week, Carris told the dispatcher that he knew Oliver. "Yes, hi. I'm in the back of a trunk," Carris said to the dispatcher at the beginning of the call. "They threw me in the back of the trunk." As the phone call continued, Carris warned the dispatcher that his kidnappers were close by him. Oliver and Deering kidnapped Carris because they believed he had money on his person, Des Moines police Sgt. Jason Halifax said; Carris did not have the money. "They're out here, I can't talk right now," Carris whispered at one point on the recording. Police were able to locate Carris by tracing the GPS device in his cellphone. Deering, also of Des Moines, was convicted in the kidnapping and beating in August and was sentenced to life in prison.