A photo on Facebook supposedly shows Kristel Candelario on a beach in Puerto Rico while her 10-month-old baby died alone in a home in Ohio.
The cover image shared on the social network on June 9 includes the message: “The time enjoyed is the true time lived.”
The Ecuadorian is seen posing smiling while walking along the beach.
The image would have been taken on the Caribbean island during the woman’s vacation of about 10 days. While Candelario enjoyed the paradisiacal beaches of the “Island of Enchantment,” little Jaylin suffered alone and without supervision in the home located on Lorain Avenue and West 97th Street in Cleveland. Candelario left her in a corral with some bottles of milk.
Last Monday, the Hispanic woman was sentenced to life imprisonment without bail for the events.
Candelario admitted that he abandoned the little girl inside the house from the 8th to the 16th of that month.
Agents arrived at the house on June 16.
At first, however, the Guayaquil native lied to the authorities about what really happened, and even changed the baby’s clothes before calling 911. The mother alleged that the minor had been sick for days.
Prosecutors in the case in Cuyahoga County indicated in court that, when officers arrived at the scene, Jailyn was lying on a mattress covered in urine and feces. “Animals take better care of her babies than she does,” prosecutor Anna Faraglia alleged.
The girl was emaciated, with sunken eyes, dry lips and fecal material in her mouth and nails. The youngest weighed seven pounds, less than she weighed at her last doctor’s visit two months earlier.
At the sentencing hearing, the 31-year-old woman stated that her daughter and God had already forgiven her.
“There is a lot of pain regarding the loss of my baby Jailyn. I am very hurt by everything that happened. I’m not trying to justify my actions, but no one knows how much I was suffering and what I was going through. Every day I ask God and my daughter Yailin for forgiveness. I am a person who believes in God and I recognize today that all of us, on many occasions, are tempted by the enemy. “God and my daughter have forgiven me,” the woman declared in Spanish to Judge Brendan J. Sheehan.
Candelario, accused of first-degree murder, also apologized to other people who were affected by her action.
“I would also like to apologize to my daughter Amaya and my parents. You can’t imagine how close I was to my daughter Jailyn and Amaya; and how much we all loved each other. “I miss my daughters a lot,” she added.
The woman’s parents, Ketty Torres and Klever Calendario, asked for clemency for her and insisted that she suffers from mental illness.
“With this I don’t want to victimize or justify anyone, I just want to look at the inner self of the person who is sitting here today being judged,” said the mother.
“Gentlemen, mental health illnesses are not reflected in the face or in a photo. They are born and stay in the soul. Only timely and effective treatment with the help of therapists and doctors helps to improve it,” he continued.
The judge stated that the defendant left the baby trapped in a small prison while she was having a good time.
“The bond between mother and child is one of the purest and most sacred. It is a relationship that is built on love, trust and unwavering protection…You committed the ultimate act of betrayal,” Sheehan said.
“That little baby persevered, hoping someone would save her. And you could have done that with a simple phone call. Instead, I see photos of you on the beach while your baby ate her own feces in an attempt to survive,” the judge questioned.
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