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[Anjdog2003]

Mom Who Left Toddler Alone In Playpen While She Went On Vacation Gets Life Sentence


A Cleveland woman who pleaded guilty to aggravated murder after leaving her toddler home alone in a playpen while she went on a 10-day vacation was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole.

A judge found that Kristel Candelario, 32, had committed “the ultimate act of betrayal” when she left her 16-month-old daughter, Jailyn Candelario, in a playpen, “trapped in a tiny prison,” while she traveled to Puerto Rico and Detroit last June.

“Just as you didn’t let Jailyn out of her confinement, so too you should spend the rest of your life in a cell without freedom,” Judge Brendan Sheehan told Candelario in handing down the sentence.

Forensic pathologist Elizabeth Mooney determined Jailyn died from starvation and severe dehydration due to pediatric neglect and ruled Jailyn’s death a homicide.

Kristel Candelario left her 16-month-old daughter, Jailyn Candelario, home alone while she went on a 10-day vacation.
Kristel Candelario left her 16-month-old daughter, Jailyn Candelario, home alone while she went on a 10-day vacation. Family photo via WKYC
Candelario also pleaded guilty to child endangerment.

In the sentencing hearing Monday, which was livestreamed by Cleveland news station WKYC, prosecutors played security video of Candelario leaving her home on June 6 with a suitcase and returning on the morning of June 16. About 10 minutes later, authorities said, Candelario called 911, saying that her daughter was dying.

Prosecutors said Candelario redressed her daughter in clean clothes before first responders arrived, but Mooney said in court that she found feces on Jailyn’s hands and feet, under her fingernails and on her mouth and teeth — which investigators said they initially believed was dirt.

Mooney’s voice quivered as she described the “terrifying” circumstances of the toddler’s death, saying Jailyn experienced extreme and prolonged suffering for as long as a week before she died.

Candelario, a former substitute teacher, initially told investigators that she had been home caring for her daughter, who had been ill and vomiting before she found her unresponsive on June 16.

Cleveland Police Sgt. Teresa Gomez, one of the homicide investigators on the case, thanked the court for allowing her to be “a voice for Jailyn” when describing the “horrific” results of the investigation.

“Candelario placed more importance on a vacation in Puerto Rico with her boyfriend than the health, safety and well-being of her own daughter,” Gomez said.

“Jailyn died a long and painful death, afraid and alone, while her mother enjoyed the beach and sun,” Gomez said.

Candelario’s defense attorney, Derek Smith, said that Candelario had been treated for depression and anxiety, but that her illness was “no justification” for her actions.

“They were narcissistic, selfish, abhorrent — absolutely worst parenting imaginable,” he said.

Candelario’s parents asked the judge for mercy and compassion, saying through an interpreter that their daughter had suffered from “mental and emotional illnesses” that affected her “good judgment and reason.”

Candelario cried as she told the judge about her immense pain and struggles with depression.

“I am not trying to justify my actions, but nobody knew how much I was suffering and what I was going through,” Candelario said through an interpreter. Every day she prays for forgiveness, she said.

The judge said Candelario’s attempts to cover up her crime showed to him that she wasn’t remorseful.

She had many opportunities to save her daughter, he said, who probably lived for a week while she was gone.

“Despite all of her suffering, that little baby persevered, waiting for someone to save her. And you could have done that with a simple phone call,” he said.

[gs568]

Death penalty and nothing less.

[ZipZap]

I'm sorry, but F off and die.

[Unsuspicious]

Vacation to Puerto Rico and Detroit? Why does it sound like she was running drugs or something

[Anjdog2003]

I just think how that little toddler suffered for 10 days.

[Bill]

Jailyn

Prophetic.

[IB4TL]

Originally Posted by gs568

Death penalty and nothing less.

...via jail cell without food or water until she dies.

[higgyburners]

Horrible

[vettemed]

I hope she has extra roaches in her cell.

[Jughead]

Priorities

[zsr22]

Originally Posted by Anjdog2003

I just think how that little toddler suffered for 10 days.

It kills me to think about that. I hope eternity in Hell is a real thing. She deserves it.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by vettemed

I hope she has extra roaches in her cell Hell.

[Onebadcad]

Amazing that some POS attorney took up her defense.
She deserves much worse than HELL, maybe a seat at the dnc convention.

[Frankie the Fink]

Well Florida just had two drunk parents (tourists) fall asleep on the beach with their toddlers nowhere to be found. So proud:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/couple-va...-children-gone

[Don Rickles]

Prison>Cleveland>Detroit>Puerto Rico

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

Prison>Cleveland>Detroit>Puerto Rico>Iron Maiden

...

[04 commemorative]

Cover her with honey and stake her to the ground around ant hills .....would sell out Madison Square Garden.

[Yesfam]

Hopefully she gets shanked in the throat and drowns in her own blood her first hour in prison. She does not deserve to live for one more second.

[Bill]

If this lady had just had the kid aborted 16 months and one day ago, this would be a non story and she'd probably get a Medal of Valor from the Brandon WH for it.

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

If this lady had just had the kid aborted 16 months and one day ago, this would be a non story and she'd probably get a Medal of Valor from the Brandon WH for it.

If the ladies mother would have done an abortion this thread wouldn't exist.