We hear news of children being assaulted in anganwadis in India or babysitters kidnapping kids. That is one of the reasons parents are apprehensive of hiring help for their kids. Another incident involving a babysitter has come to light, which if anything, would make parents more apprehensive.
A babysitter has been jailed for 25 years for shaking a three-month-old baby so violently, that the child¡¯s spine shattered.
31-year-old Samantha Klein left little Alaya Foster to die in pain and did not get her any medical help for 24 hours.?She even pleaded to manslaughter in October when Alaya died from the injuries she suffered for six months. She died at her home in Niagara Falls, New York.
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Doctors found that Alaya suffered a bleed on the brain, a fractured skull and damage to her spinal cord.?Reportedly, Klein injured Alaya within hours of taking her in at around 9:00 pm on February 21.
Her phone records showed that in the early hours of February 22, she Googled the symptoms of seizures and a child not being conscious. Even though she called Alaya¡¯s mom she did not inform her about the situation at hand. It was in the early hours of February 23 that Klein called 911 and the little girl was rushed to hospital - she was unresponsive.
She soon died from her grave injuries. For a long time, Klein denied any involvement in Alaya¡¯s death. "I did nothing to that baby," The Sun quoted her as saying to a TV channel.?
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She claimed that there was already a bruise on the infant¡¯s face when her mother, Dominique Hilson, dropped her off with her, for a two-day stay.?She said that she noticed something was wrong only when she was putting the baby to bed the second day.?
"I kissed her on her forehead and she was just cold. I started screaming and I had my friend call 911 and I started panicking. I didn't know what to do,¡± The Sun quoted her as saying.?However in October, she made a guilty plea to a charge of first-degree manslaughter.
She admitted that she shook the baby and used blunt force trauma, causing the baby, injuries.?This week, Niagara County Judge Matthew Murphy sentenced Klein to 25 years in prison.?
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Crystal Dusen, the baby¡¯s grandmother, said of Klein during the hearing, "You are an evil monster and we believe you are a dangerous person because you killed an innocent, helpless child who could not defend herself.¡±
There is no knowing what goes on in the mind of a sick person, because only a person who has something wrong with them, can do something so horrendous to an innocent baby.?