CLEVELAND — An Ohio mom whose 16-month-old daughter died after being left residence alone in a playpen for 10 days final summer time whereas she went on trip was sentenced Monday to life in jail with no likelihood of parole.
Kristel Candelario, 32, had pleaded responsible final month to aggravated homicide and youngster endangerment as a part of a plea cope with Cuyahoga County prosecutors, who dismissed two homicide counts and a felonious assault cost.
Authorities have mentioned Candelario left her daughter, Jailyn, of their Cleveland residence when she went on trip to Detroit and Puerto Rico in June 2023. When she returned 10 days later, she discovered the lady was not respiration within the playpen and referred to as 911. Emergency responders discovered the kid was “extraordinarily dehydrated” and pronounced her lifeless shortly after they arrived.
An post-mortem by the Cuyahoga County medical expert’s workplace decided that the toddler died of hunger and extreme dehydration.
County Widespread Pleas Courtroom Decide Brendan Sheehan advised Candelario she dedicated “the last word betrayal” by leaving her daughter alone with out meals.
“Simply as you did not let Jailyn out of her confinement, so too you must spend the remainder of your life in a cell with out freedom,” Sheehan mentioned. “The one distinction will probably be, the jail will a minimum of feed you and offer you liquid that you just denied her.”
Candelario, who has struggled with melancholy and associated psychological well being points, mentioned she has prayed every day for forgiveness.
“There’s a lot ache that I’ve regarding the lack of my child, Jailyn,” she mentioned. “I am extraordinarily harm about all the pieces that occurred. I’m not making an attempt to justify my actions, however no one knew how a lot I used to be struggling and what I used to be going via … God and my daughter have forgiven me.”
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