An Ohio woman who embarked on a 10-day vacation while leaving her 16-month-old daughter behind at their home to starve to death has been ordered to spend the rest of her life in prison.
Kristel Candelario, 32, received her sentence on Monday in a courthouse in Cleveland after having previously pleaded guilty to one charge each of aggravated murder and child endangerment in the death of her daughter Jailyn.
The Judge who oversaw Candelario’s case, Brendan Sheehan, said traveling out of State while leaving a toddler home alone without food was “the ultimate betrayal” that deserved one of the harshest legal punishment available.
“Just as you didn’t let Jailyn out of confinement, so too you should spend the rest of your life in a cell without freedom”, Sheehan said during Candelario’s sentencing hearing. “ The only difference will be [that] the prison will at least feed you and give liquid that you denied her”.
Prosecutors charged Candelario with going on vacation to Detroit and Puerto Rico beginning on 6 June while leaving Jailyn behind in a playpen at their home on the edge of Cleveland’s West Boulevard neighborhood.
A few days into the trip, the NEW YORK POST reported,Candelario went on social media and posted a photo of herself smiling,barefoot and in a bathing suit on a beach. The image’s caption read: “The time that is enjoyed is the true time lived.
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