A despicable mother who left her 16-month-old daughter to starve to death in a filthy playpen before leaving for a 10-day beach trip callously lied to police, telling police that her daughter died because she refused to eat. and is seen on chilling body camera video. .
Christel Candelario, 32, who was sentenced this week to life in prison without the possibility of parole, falsely claimed to police that she was with her daughter Jaylin last June, when in fact she was not. He reportedly flew to Detroit and Puerto Rico and posed for smiling photos. He was home alone in Ohio when his daughter died on the beach.
The mother showed little emotion and blamed her daughter’s starvation on the infant’s refusal to eat.
“She wasn’t giving her food, just giving her milk… She was refusing because she probably hadn’t eaten for two days,” Candelario said before shrugging her shoulders. Obtained by law and crime.
“But that’s why I was so scared. I said, ‘Oh my God, she won’t eat, I have to go to the hospital,'” she continued.
Candelario casually mentioned that her daughter, who usually sleeps 12 hours a night, never woke up on the morning of June 16.
A police officer interrupts the mother and asks her what happened the night before, but the mother lies that she was in the shower when she suddenly heard her daughter scream.
“I don’t know, maybe she’s in pain,” she said. “When I picked her up this morning, she looked really dry.”
In Monday’s sentencing, County Common Pleas Court Judge Brendan Sheehan said Candelario committed the “ultimate betrayal” of starving his daughter to death.
“Just as you did not release Jaylin from confinement, you should spend the rest of your life in solitary confinement without freedom,” the judge said. “The only difference is that the prison will at least feed you and give you the liquids you denied her.”
Candelario left her young child alone at home in Cleveland so she could travel alone. It is not revealed why she did not ask anyone to take care of Jaylin in her absence.
“Time spent having fun is time spent truly living,” Candelario wrote cruelly in the caption accompanying a photo taken on a beach in Puerto Rico.
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When Canderlaio returned home 10 days later, Jaylin was emaciated and not breathing in a pack-and-play. The pack-and-play “consisted of a dirty blanket and bottom liner and was soaked with urine and feces,” her affidavit states.
An autopsy determined Jaylin died of starvation and severe dehydration.
Candelario pleaded guilty last month to aggravated murder and child endangerment charges in a case that Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley described as “truly unimaginable.”
Candelario, who claimed to have suffered from depression and other mental health issues, said in court Monday that he prayed for forgiveness every day.
“I’m very hurt about everything that happened. I’m not trying to justify my actions, but no one knew how much I was suffering and what I was going through,” she said. said.
