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KIAJAH SHAW - 13 months / Convicted: Alice Steele - Richardson, TX
by TexasMommy Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:09 pm
20-year sentence for baby sitter who claimed 13-month-old choked on Lego
By Matt Peterson, dallasnews.com
1:34 pm on June 28, 2013
Updated at 2:15 p.m.:
The jury took just 45 minutes to sentence Alice Steele to 20 years in prison for critically injuring a 13-month-old child in her care.
Steele’s adult daughter dropped her jaw in disbelief as the verdict was read, breaking into tears as she tried to talk her mother while bailiffs led her away.
Kiajah Shaw’s mother returned to the courtroom after breaking down in tears earlier began crying again as the family friend was taken away.
Staff writer Krista M. Torralva reports:
The mother of an infant who was grievously injured by her baby sitter dashed out of a Dallas courthouse in tears this morning as a prosecutor delivered closing arguments in the case.
Alice Steele was found guilty Thursday of recklessly causing serious bodily injury to Raychel Shaw’s 13-month-old daughter, Kiajah. Steele faces between two and 20 years in prison or between two and 10 years with probation.
“Giving Alice Steele probation is probably the worst decision anyone can make in your position,” prosecutor Doug Millican told the jury during the punishment phase of the trial.
Steele, a close friend of the child’s father, pleaded not guilty, saying Kiajah choked on a Lego block on Feb. 25, 2008, the day she called paramedics to her Richardson home. She said the girl suffered the head injury three days earlier when she fell out of her bed.
The block was never found, and doctors saw no evidence Kiajah had choked, instead tending to the critical injury to her forehead.
Kiajah, who was left blind and brain-damaged by the injury, suffocated to death in her crib eight months later because her injuries prevented her from turning over.
While both sides delivered closing arguments, Steele’s daughter, Cassandra Dool, held her boyfriend’s hand across the room. Her boyfriend was at her left, and her brother at her right. Each of the young adults testified in Steele’s defense earlier.
Dool said her greatest fears were losing her mom and having nowhere to go. Dool lives with Steele and said she does not have any contact with her father.
The jury is expected to begin deliberating at 1:30 p.m.
By Matt Peterson, dallasnews.com
1:34 pm on June 28, 2013
Updated at 2:15 p.m.:
The jury took just 45 minutes to sentence Alice Steele to 20 years in prison for critically injuring a 13-month-old child in her care.
Steele’s adult daughter dropped her jaw in disbelief as the verdict was read, breaking into tears as she tried to talk her mother while bailiffs led her away.
Kiajah Shaw’s mother returned to the courtroom after breaking down in tears earlier began crying again as the family friend was taken away.
Staff writer Krista M. Torralva reports:
The mother of an infant who was grievously injured by her baby sitter dashed out of a Dallas courthouse in tears this morning as a prosecutor delivered closing arguments in the case.
Alice Steele was found guilty Thursday of recklessly causing serious bodily injury to Raychel Shaw’s 13-month-old daughter, Kiajah. Steele faces between two and 20 years in prison or between two and 10 years with probation.
“Giving Alice Steele probation is probably the worst decision anyone can make in your position,” prosecutor Doug Millican told the jury during the punishment phase of the trial.
Steele, a close friend of the child’s father, pleaded not guilty, saying Kiajah choked on a Lego block on Feb. 25, 2008, the day she called paramedics to her Richardson home. She said the girl suffered the head injury three days earlier when she fell out of her bed.
The block was never found, and doctors saw no evidence Kiajah had choked, instead tending to the critical injury to her forehead.
Kiajah, who was left blind and brain-damaged by the injury, suffocated to death in her crib eight months later because her injuries prevented her from turning over.
While both sides delivered closing arguments, Steele’s daughter, Cassandra Dool, held her boyfriend’s hand across the room. Her boyfriend was at her left, and her brother at her right. Each of the young adults testified in Steele’s defense earlier.
Dool said her greatest fears were losing her mom and having nowhere to go. Dool lives with Steele and said she does not have any contact with her father.
The jury is expected to begin deliberating at 1:30 p.m.
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