No more jail time for the woman in Ohio who buried her new newborn still daughter in the backyard of her house
A woman in Ohio, who was found guilty in connection illegal burying of the corpse of her stillborn daughter, will not serve the jail time. Earlier she was sentenced to three years of basic supervision. According to the earlier sentence, Brooke Skylar Richardson, 20 was supposed to spend seven days in the county jail.
The judge said, "should she violate any terms of her supervision, Richardson could face up to 12 months behind bars."
Richardson didn't found guilty of aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment in the case, which is now two years old case, since the corpse of her newborn daughter, Annabelle was buried in her Carlisle backyard.
The judge has further asked to release the remains of the infant to the Richardson family to give a proper burial to the site.
During the sentencing, Richardson pleaded forgiveness ad said, "I'm forever sorry."
Kind words from the judge-
During the sentence, the infant's paternal grandmother spoke to the courts she is struggling to find the right word to describe the pain after learning about her grandchild who would have been two years, four months and one week old, if alive. She said, "None of them seem to fit the amount of pain I have felt ever since we found out that not only did I lose my first grandchild, but my baby -- who I would lay down my life for without a thought -- lost his first child, and Skylar had no intention of letting us know."
Before handing the sentence, the judge said, "I've always sort of thought of this case, Ms. Richardson, as a story of two little girls -- Skylar Richardson and Annabelle Richardson. “I think what often gets overlooked ... is just how precious life is," he said. "Your life, Annabelle's life. Life is precious, and it should be protected, and it should be guarded in all respects."
The judge further called the case as "mandatory community control case," since Richardson had no prior criminal record.
