A Clay County jury convicted Jenna Boedecker of two counts of second-degree murder and four counts of child endangerment, as well as one count of fourth-degree domestic assault and one count of first-degree property damage. That same jury also recommended the punishment for the crimes.

Boedecker’s children, 2-year-old Ireland Ribando and 7-week-old Goodknight Ribando, were found dead in a Jeep Patriot outside their rural Kearney home on Independence Day, 2018.

The jury recommended that Boedecker be sentenced to 22 years each for the two second-degree murder convictions and a total of nine years for the endangering the welfare of a child convictions.

Court documents explained that Boedecker said she put her 2-year-old daughter and 8-week-old in her Jeep while she argued with her husband and then fell asleep at their rural Kearney home on July 3, 2018. The next morning, she found them unresponsive.

Official sentencing is scheduled for August 3.

KPGZ News - Brian Watts contributed to this report