09/27/2011:
Babysitter Jennifer Duran Martinez, 35, is being held
without bail on suspicion of child abuse homicide. On Thursday,
September 22, Martinez called 911 to report that 4-month-old Kaysen
Calhoun, a child she was babysitting in her home, was coughing up blood.
The boy was rushed to the hospital, where he died on Saturday. Murray,
UT., police allege that Martinez admitted shaking the baby when he
would not stop crying.
08/12/2008:
A 24-year-old babysitter was charged with two counts of
felony assault and reckless endangerment for intentionally burning the
feet of 2-year-old Christian Cail with scalding bathwater, causing
second- and third-degree burns. Chasity Pasinello, pregnant at the
time, was watching the child in her Waterford, N.Y., apartment when the
October, 2007, incident occurred. Pasinello, who had watched Christian
before, pleaded guilty to recklessly causing injury to a child under 11
and was sentenced to one to three years in prison. The 2-year-old
recovered after being treated at a hospital specializing in burns.
06/24/2005:
Jimena Barreto, a nanny who cared for the children of
wealthy families, was convicted on two counts of second-degree murder
and sentenced to 30 years to life in state prison for the hit-and-run
deaths of 10-year-old Troy Pack and his sister Alana, 7, in Danville,
California. According to prosecutors, Barreto, 46, who had three
drunken-driving convictions prior to the October 26, 2003 incident, was
under the influence of alcohol, Vicodin, and muscle relaxants when she
ran off the road and struck the children with her Mercedes Benz. After
the crash, Barreto fled, but was arrested in San Jose two days later.
On an emotionally charged day for parents Bob and Carmen Pack, the jury
found Barreto guilty of leaving the scene of a fatality and DUI in
addition to the second-degree murder counts.
04/29/2009:
Daniella Ruiz, 27, maintained her innocence throughout her
murder trial for the 2006 shaking death of 5-month-old Brandon Zamora, a
child she was babysitting in Provo, Utah. The mother of four claimed
that the baby was asleep when he was brought to her, and later became
pale and unresponsive. After deliberating for 11 hours, the jury found
Ruiz guilty of child abuse homicide, a second-degree felony, which
carries a maximum sentence of 15 years. Despite pleas from Ruiz, Judge
David Mortensen ruled that the case warranted a penalty harsher than
probation and sentenced her to one to 15 years in prison. Defense
attorney Shelden Carter is attempting to get a new trial for Ruiz.
05/06/2009:
In Lower Paxton Township, PA, a Brazilian nanny faces a
minimum of 10 to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to the
third-degree murder of her own son. On August 7, 2008, while living
with a host family, Ana Amelia Santos Cuoco gave birth in her basement
bedroom. According to police, the 24-year-old wrapped the baby in a
blanket and a plastic bag, suffocating him. The host family found the
body the following day. In exchange for her guilty plea, which also
included abuse of a corpse and concealing the death of a child,
prosecutors agree to not seek a first-degree murder conviction against
Cuoco.
04/08/2009:
Before hiring 61-year-old Cheryl Ann White to baby-sit his
5-month-old daughter Caroline, father Wesley Locklair installed a nanny
cam in his Murrells Inlet, S.C., home. After White's first day of
babysitting the child, Locklair watched the VHS tape and saw White
shaking Caroline repeatedly, placing her hand over the crying baby's
mouth, jerking her around by her feet and arms, and then spanking the
child. Locklair immediately turned the six-hour tape over to Horry
County police, who charged White with aggravated assault and battery and
child neglect. White pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced
to 10 years in prison on each charge, which was later reduced to five
years probation and an order to register with the South Carolina
Department of Social Services' child abuser registry.
03/13/2009:
A Broussard, Louisiana, babysitter was found guilty of
negligent homicide for the 2005 death of 11-month-old Lane Leger, who
died of a head injury while in her care. Jurors heard the testimony of
medical experts, who said the fatal injury resulted from adult force.
After being denied an appeal, 26-year-old Katie Savoy began serving her
five year sentence.
10/30/1997:
19-year-old English au pair Louise Woodward was hired by
Sunil and Deborah Eappen to care for their eight-month-old son Matthew
at their Newton, Mass., home. While watching Matthew on February 4,
1997, Woodward became irritated with his crying, and, according to
prosecutors, shook him and hit his head on a hard surface. Matthew died
four days later at a Boston hospital. X-Rays revealed a fractured
skull, subdural hematoma, bleeding behind the eyes, and a
partially-healed fractured wrist from a month prior. At trial, the
prosecution presented Woodward as an irresponsible nanny, citing
incidents in which she used a fake ID to enter nightclubs. After 26
hours of deliberation, the jury found Woodward guilty of second-degree
murder. After the verdict, Woodward's lawyer filed motions which led to
the murder conviction being reduced to involuntary manslaughter.
Woodward's sentence of 15 years to life was reduced to time served, and
she was released after spending 279 days in jail. Following her ordeal,
Woodward returned to her native UK where she studied law and later
became a dance teacher.
05/27/2003:
In Edinburgh, Scotland, a city-council-registered
child-minder stood trial, accused of murdering one-year-old Alexander
Graham by shaking him and hitting his head against a hard surface in
July 2001. Tina McLeod, 40, vehemently denied the charges, saying she
found the baby on the living room floor while she was watching him in
her own home. After the jury heard testimony from a Neuropathologist
who said that shaking a one-year-old to death would be very difficult
and that a fall may have caused the infant's death, they returned a
verdict of "not proven," an option in Scotland's criminal justice
system.
07/30/2008:
A Las Cruces, N.M., babysitter was arrested and charged with
criminal sexual penetration of a minor for allegedly having sex with a
14-year-old boy she was caring for. When questioned by police, Annette
Martinez, 25, said that she was in love with the boy and had had sex
with him 40 times. Martinez also reportedly told detectives that she
thought the boy was 16 and that she may be pregnant with his child. The
teen, whose two siblings Martinez also babysat, claims the sex only
occurred 10 times. In February 2009, Martinez pleaded no contest to 20
counts of the fourth-degree felony and was sentenced to nine years in
prison.
05/08/2009:
Nanny Jonathan Then was charged with raping and molesting
three boys, aged eight to ten, according to prosecutors, who say Then
took advantage of boys he was watching on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Then, 20, reportedly advertised his services on the Internet as a
"live-in nanny, babysitter or an after-school parental assistant." The
Early Childhood Education major was escorted out of his Hunter College
classroom by police and brought to the station for questioning. Then,
who has worked at the Dalton (pictured) and Trevor Day schools in
Manhattan, and a New Hampshire summer camp, was released on $10,000
bail.
03/07/2012:
Texan William Webb, 27, had been babysitting an 8-month old
in December 2011, when the mother returned to find her child was not
responding normally. She took the child to the hospital, where they
determined that the baby's blood alcohol level was .291, nearly four
times the legal limit for adult drivers. There was a bottle of vodka on
the coffee table, but how the child ingested the alcohol is not clear.
The child recovered.
Webb was arrested in connection with the
case last week and bonded out of the McLennan County Jail two days
later. That day Webb reportedly violated a protective order by
threatening his accuser, going to her home and slashing some tires,
pouring gasoline around the house and setting it on fire. Luckily, it
was too wet and the home didn't burn. Police caught up with Webb at his
mother's house and arrested him for arson, criminal mischief, violation
of a protective order and retaliation.
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