An Indian woman who worked as a babysitter in Connecticut has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for the death of a 19-month-old child in her care last year.
Kinjal Patel, 29, was sentenced on Wednesday after she was found guilty to first-degree manslaughter. But under a plea deal entered in Superior Court in New Haven, she will serve 14 years in prison.
She was charged with causing the death of 19-month-old <g data-gr-id="15">Athiyan</g> Sivakumar, who died at Yale-New Haven Hospital on January 19, 2014. His injuries occurred three days earlier while he was under Patel’s care at her apartment, New Haven Register reported.
The office of the chief state medical examiner had ruled that the child’s death a homicide and that the cause of death was blunt-force trauma with multiple sites of impact.
Patel’s attorney, Kevin Smith, maintained the boy’s death was an accident.