Tuesday 27 November 2012

Nigerian lady sentenced to 80 years in prison over deaths of toddlers in her care




16-month-old Elias Castillo and three other toddlers died after Tata left them unsupervised at her home while she went to a nearby store. Prosecutors say she left a pan of oil cooking atop a stovetop burner and that this ignited the February 2011 blaze. There were 7 children when the fire started, four died, three survived.

24 year old Nigerian/American woman Jessica Tata,  still faces three more counts of felony murder in relation to the other children who died, and three counts of abandoning a child and two counts of reckless injury to a child in relation to three who were hurt.  she was sentenced to 80 years in prison on Monday November 20th after being found guilty

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