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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"girl power"
The left calls it post-birth abortion. It’s the new “right”.
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.
“as well as her immigration status,” Kanellopoulos said.
HUH?
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.
Nobody involved in this travesty should be considered a human being. These are all subhuman garbage.
“her immigration status” where is she from?
she’s a step grandma.
My dentists office manager is a legit grandma at 35. The mind boggles.
Agreed.
Good question. Let’s just deport her in that case.
Judge Ushir Pandit-Durant
H1B?
Yes, but the point remains. Presumably her man would be around the same age…though one never knows.
My hubby’s cousin was grandma at 35. I love her to death, but she and her daughters married far too soon (should’ve heard my MIL, her aunt, stand up at the wedding shower and tell them it was too young, LOL). At least they were married, unlike these, doubtless.
Indeed some wonder where DEI started from.
And HOW MANY YEARS have the J6 people been in jail WAITING to see a judge? 3 or more YEARS? For TRESPASS in the PEOPLE’S HOUSE?
Shes a woman
Gynocentric courts do nothing to them.
Judge Ushir Pandit-Durant. One thing for sure, she doesn't skip many lunches.
My Grandmother became a Grandmother for the first time at age 44.
Just like Bishop Buffet Slayer Barber and Stacy the Hutt.
I recall the school counselor in High School - she was a good looking “school teacher” that us boys had a crush on. It screwed up the fantasy when she announced that she had just become a grandmother!
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