The mother of a 16-month-old baby who died after being left alone in a Cleveland, Ohio home for eight days while on an island vacation has been sentenced to life in prison.
Kristel Candelario, 31, pleaded guilty last February to charges related to the death of her 16-month-old daughter Jailyn last year.
Candelario told the court “Every day I ask forgiveness from God and from my daughter Jailyn,” according to NBC.
The woman admitted that she left her daughter alone and unattended in the house from June 8 to June 16, 2023, during which she was allegedly on vacation in Puerto Rico and Detroit (Michigan).
According to court documents, Candelario told Cuyahoga County police he left the girl alone. girl while he was gone on a trip.
The police found the girl “wrapped in dirty blankets” with feces and urine.
Jailyn died of starvation and severe dehydration due to neglect, Cuyahoga County Coroner Elizabeth Mooney said at the sentencing hearing, according to information cited by NBC.
The girl weighed 13 pounds, a decrease of 7 pounds since her last visit to the doctor less than two months before her death, the coroner added.
Michael C. O’Malley, the Cuyahoga prosecutor, indicated that Jailyn “a beautiful girl who was taken from this world because of her mother’s unimaginable selfishness.”
The woman was sentenced to life imprisonment without the right to parole.
Source: Panama America
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