An Ohio mom who left her 16-month-old daughter in a play pen whereas she went on trip was sentenced on Monday to life in jail with out parole for the toddler’s loss of life.
Kristel Candelario, 32, pleaded responsible in February to 1 rely of aggravated homicide and one rely of endangering kids in a cope with prosecutors that dropped two homicide counts and a felonious assault cost.
Prosecutors mentioned on June 6, 2023, Candelario left her daughter, Jailyn Candelario, “alone and unattended” in a playpen at her residence in Cleveland for 10 days whereas she traveled to Puerto Rico and Detroit. When she returned, Candelario discovered her daughter deceased and referred to as 911. Investigators quickly discovered that Jailyn was “extraordinarily dehydrated on the time of her loss of life.”
On Monday, Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Anna Faraglia offered a PowerPoint, exhibiting the court docket pictures of Candelario smiling and partying with associates in Puerto Rico. The prosecution additionally performed a recording from a Ring doorbell digital camera of Jailyn screaming greater than two days after being left on the home alone. Candelario lied to police about her trip, and proof later confirmed that she redressed her daughter earlier than police initially got here to the scene, the prosecution mentioned.
Candelario’s lawyer Derek Smith mentioned she struggled with psychological well being points and had tried to kill herself by overdose in 2023, after which she was given antidepressants. Smith mentioned she stopped taking the remedy and that that influenced her judgment on the time that she left Jailyn and went on trip.
In an announcement to the court docket, Candelario mentioned, “there’s a lot ache that I’ve regarding the lack of my child” and that “day by day I ask forgiveness from God and from my daughter, Jailyn.”
“I’m extraordinarily harm about every little thing that occurred,” she mentioned. “I’m not making an attempt to justify my actions, however no person knew how a lot I used to be struggling and what I used to be going by means of.”
Cuyahoga County Decide Brendan Sheehan mentioned Candelario, by means of her actions, “dedicated the final word act of betrayal.”
“Leaving your child terrified, alone, unprotected to undergo what I heard was probably the most grotesque loss of life possible with no meals, no water,” he mentioned. “The proof that I’ve witnessed right here earlier than this court docket reveals that this time you merely selected to not be right here since you needed to have enjoyable. You determined you wanted a trip and what adopted was absolute depravity.”
“Simply as you did not let Jailyn out of her confinement till she died … you must spend the remainder of your life in a cell with out freedom.”