By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-07 21:52:50 | Updated at 2025-01-08 18:29:35
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Evil step-grandma, 36, gets astonishingly light sentence for 'killing of baby' that shocked America
Daily Mail ^ | January 7, 2025 | Nic White
Posted on 01/07/2025 1:31:31 PM PST by Angelino97
A 36-year-old step-grandmother accused of beating and shaking an 11-month-old baby to death will not even spend a year in jail.
Shanica Callaghan was sentenced to 364 days in prison by Judge Ushir Pandit-Durant in Queens Supreme Court on Tuesday after striking a plea deal.
Her husband Clinton's grandson Jeremiah died on September 6, 2017, with a fractured skull and injuries to his brain, neck, and spinal cord.
A medical examiner found the baby died from 'violent, repetitive forces of acceleration and deceleration and significant blunt force trauma being applied to [his] head and body'.
Callaghan, who has three young children of her own, was alone with Jeremiah and claimed he began to choke while she was feeding him.
She was arrested on April 24, 2018, and charged with second-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter, first-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child - all felonies.
All those charges were dismissed on October 29 and replaced with a single count of second-degree reckless endangerment - a class A misdemeanor...
'This was a tragedy that happened in a brief moment of time,' Assistant District Attorney George Kanellopoulos told the court at sentencing.
He said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, a Democrat re-elected in 2023, personally evaluated and approved the plea deal based on criteria he presented.
'The defendant's age, her lack of criminal history, the fact that she's a mother of three other children, that she's married, that she's lived in her home for a long period of time, as well as her immigration status,' Kanellopoulos said.
'All those compound the tragedy of this baby's death, so we believe this is a fair outcome and a just punishment for what happened to baby Jeremiah.'
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
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1 posted on 01/07/2025 1:31:31 PM PST by Angelino97
To: Angelino97
2 posted on 01/07/2025 1:34:26 PM PST by linMcHlp
To: Angelino97
The left calls it post-birth abortion. It’s the new “right”.
3 posted on 01/07/2025 1:34:48 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Angelino97
It’s disgusting enough that she is considered level of “grandma”. No one should be a grandparent until 50.
Look at how much is wrong in the background of this atrocity. That’s for starters.
RIP, poor child.
4 posted on 01/07/2025 1:35:06 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: Angelino97
“as well as her immigration status,” Kanellopoulos said.
HUH?
5 posted on 01/07/2025 1:35:36 PM PST by TiGuy22
To: Angelino97
Leniency was shown, in part, because of “her immigration status”.
US citizen steps out of line? A white guy? That could mean solitary confinement or a long prison sentence. Judges don’t fool around when real scum shows up in court.
To: Angelino97
Nobody involved in this travesty should be considered a human being. These are all subhuman garbage.
7 posted on 01/07/2025 1:41:44 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
To: Angelino97
“her immigration status” where is she from?
8 posted on 01/07/2025 1:43:32 PM PST by ronniesgal ( so is it okay that I said that??? GO TRUMP GO!!!!)
To: the OlLine Rebel
she’s a step grandma.
My dentists office manager is a legit grandma at 35. The mind boggles.
9 posted on 01/07/2025 1:44:51 PM PST by ronniesgal ( so is it okay that I said that??? GO TRUMP GO!!!!)
To: HYPOCRACY
10 posted on 01/07/2025 1:48:29 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: ronniesgal
Good question. Let’s just deport her in that case.
11 posted on 01/07/2025 1:52:13 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Angelino97
Judge Ushir Pandit-Durant
H1B?
12 posted on 01/07/2025 1:52:33 PM PST by albie (U)
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