EXCLUSIVE Step-grandmother, 36, who 'bashed 11-month-old baby to death' will not even spend a year in jail

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Posted on 12/15/2024 2:18:21 PM PST by Morgana

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, after pleading guilty.

Shanica Callaghan accepted a generous plea deal in the Queens Supreme Court just days before her trial, six years and at least 55 hearings after her arrest, according to documents seen by DailyMail.com.

Her husband Clinton's grandson Jeramiah 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 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.

The plea agreement recommends 364 days in prison, one day short of a full year, ahead of her sentencing by Judge Ushir Pandit-Durant on January 7.

Callaghan's recommended sentencing is the maximum allowed under the charge and prevents her from being deported back to her native Jamaica.

US immigration law only allows for the deportation of visa holders if they are convicted of a 'crime of moral turpitude' punishable by at least a year in jail.

New York approved a law in 2019 that capped many class A misdemeanor sentences at 364 days and a $1,000 fine to avoid long-term non-citizen residents having their visas or green cards canceled for petty crimes.

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1 posted on 12/15/2024 2:18:21 PM PST by Morgana

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2 posted on 12/15/2024 2:20:10 PM PST by Fungi

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3 posted on 12/15/2024 2:21:32 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (< < Wandering aimfully > >)

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4 posted on 12/15/2024 2:22:11 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy. until Jan 20, 2025)

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They shot Harambe because he might do this....

5 posted on 12/15/2024 2:26:51 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

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6 posted on 12/15/2024 2:29:12 PM PST by Skwor

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