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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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Don’t look Ethel.
Petty crimes...
This happened in third world NY.
I must remember to not be close to her on judgement day.
New York passes a law allowing a visa holding immigrant to violently kill a citizen and not face jail or be deported. What a country...
Well, that explains a lot. We need to keep as many animals like her in this country since deportation is racist. /s
Woman beats a male baby to death. No jail. What a shocker.
Crickets from the guys here. If it was a guy who did it they’d be calling for his head.
I looked Boo Boo.......yep.
Well, at least she didn’t “parade” around the Capitol on January 6.
The federal immigration law needs to be changed.
Evil government there.
You mean “Shanica” wasn’t enough? đ¤ˇ
I looked; didn’t need to.
Kid said something hateful?
The baby must have dissed her.
Think of it as a post-natal abortion. Margaret Sanger would probably be proud.
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