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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She got less time than January Sixers. Smh…
It’s not the country. NY is not representative of the country as a whole. NY is a liberal sh!thole that produces such geniuses as Nadler, the Cortez nitwit, Jamal Bowman, etc. NY, NJ, and all the states north and east of NY should join Canada in which case America’s gain would be Canada’s loss.
Well, that’ll teach her. I sure hope she’s learned her lesson.
/s
Crikey, get a load of those fingernails!
“”Her husband Clinton’s grandson Jeramiah””
Are we supposed to make some sense out of this? Is a PhD required? Where is anyone named Clinton even mentioned prior to that?
Couldn’t or shouldn’t at least an 8th grade education be required for a journalist to be called a journalist?
And no - I am not going to look!
Refusal to execute this beast is the kind of decision that is rapidly destroying America!
The D.A. who lowered the charges should be sent to prison for life.
As expected. And what is their fascination with fingernails long and sharp enough to perform surgery?
Misdemeanor???
The DA should swing.
Next time some indignant POC gripes about White-Supremacist oppression, refer them to this lovely bit of Institutional Racism.
She must be a WNBA star.
Beating a baby to death is not a *petty crime*.
I suppose except to demoncrats who hate babies to begin with.
I’m a guy and it needs to be Luigied.
I didn't have to look ... Shanica.
Are we sure the judge isn’t DACA herself?
“ 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.”
But what kind of visa does she hold, and can it not be revoked or non-renewed?
My dad beat my three-month-old twin brother to death, and all he got was two years. So this doesn’t surprise me at all.
Nothing to be concerned about. /s
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