Kristel Candelario, Cleveland, Ohio mom charged with murder after leaving 16 month old daughter alone at home while going on 8 day vacation to Puerto Rico.
A Cleveland, Ohio mother has been charged with murder after police said she left her 16 month old infant daughter alone for eight days while she went on vacation.
Officials said 31-year-old Kristel Candelario told them she went on vacation to Puerto Rico and Detroit from June 8 to June 16. The mom returned home last Friday to find her daughter unresponsive.
Investigators said the 16-month-old child, Jailyn was extremely dehydrated.
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Did the mother hope to find the child upon her return?
The toddler was taken from the 3100 block of West 97th Street in the Cudell neighborhood to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner.
WOIO spoke with neighbors who said they would have gladly watched the child if they had been asked.
Neighbor Suleym Gonzalez said Candelario was not the typical caretaker of her daughter, and the baby was usually cared for by the grandmother.
‘Her (the baby’s) mom always wanted to go out and just left her with her grandma and all that,’ she said.
The medical examiner later reported that Jailyn died on June 16. No cause of death had been released by the medical examiner as of Wednesday.
Not immediately clear was the whereabouts of the deceased child’s father. Also not clear is how the mother realistically ever expected the toddler girl to take her of her own needs and had in essence sought the girl’s death.
Police said Candelario is currently being held on a $1 million bond, which was set during her arraignment Tuesday.
Candelario is scheduled to be in court for a pre-trial hearing on June 28.
