Sentenced: Philadelphia Police Investigating Horrific Death Of 2YO Girl In Tacony

[Sugar Cookie]

Philadelphia police are investigating the death of a toddler in the city's Tacony section on Thursday night.

The call came in around 2 p.m. for an unresponsive 2-year-old girl.

Police say the child appeared to have trauma marks on her face and body.

The girl was transported to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children where she later died.

Police are still working to determine what led to the child's death.

Philadelphia police investigating death of 2-year-old girl in Tacony

Philadelphia police are investigating the death of a toddler in the city's Tacony section.

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A mother is now in custody following the suspicious death of her 2-year-old daughter who was found unresponsive inside a home in the Tacony section of Northeast Philadelphia Thursday night, police said.

Mom in Custody Following Suspicious Death of 2-Year-Old Girl in Northeast Philly Home

A mother is now in custody following the suspicious death of her 2-year-old daughter who was found unresponsive inside a home in the Tacony section of Northeast Philadelphia Thursday night, police said.

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[Sevens My Charm]

”Very disturbing case of child abuse. The child sustained horrific injuries," said Philadelphia Police Homicide Captain Jason Smith.

Police are not releasing the child's name at this time.

Investigators say the child was staying with her godmother at the Marsden Street home because her mother's house on the 3300 block of Hartville Street in West Kensington had been without heat since November.

Who is responsible for the abuse is still being investigated, officials say.

Police say both women, whose names have not been released, are being questioned by homicide detectives.

Philadelphia police investigating death of 2-year-old girl in Tacony

Philadelphia police are investigating the death of a toddler in the city's Tacony section.

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[Sejanus]

Monster

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Those charged include 32-year-old Yaritza Cirilo-Fuentes, described as the child's godmother and primary caretaker.

Also charged was the victim's babysitter, 42-year-old Helen Smith.

Prosecutors say this stemmed from the long-term torture and beating death of the child, who would have been three years old in May.

The District Attorney's Office says information from the public helped them make the arrests in this child's murder.

Police earlier said the child was staying with her godmother at the Marsden Street home because her mother's house on the 3300 block of Hartville Street in West Kensington had been without heat since November.

2 women charged in beating death of little girl in Tacony

Two women have been charged for the murder of a 2-year-old girl in Philadelphia.

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The district attorney’s office says the mother didn’t have custody of the child, and had left her in the care of Cirilo-Fuentes, believing the young girl would be safe.

2 Women Charged With Murder In 'Horrific' Beating Death Of 2-Year-Old Girl In Tacony, Officials Say

Yaritza Cirilo-Fuentes and Helen Smith are both facing charges.

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[Satanica]

It's not clear to me how the mother was able to leave the child in anyone's custody, if she didn't have custody herself. Clearly, with such a lack of judgment, she shouldn't have had custody. Why did she believe her kid would be safe?

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Probably not a formal arrangement.

The kid might have been safer in foster care.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Assistant District Attorney Chesley Lightsey said Yaritza Cirilo-Fuentes, 32, and Helen Smith, 42, subjected the girl, Yatzirys Rodriguez, to “horrific, long-term torture” before she was discovered unresponsive Thursday afternoon on the 6300 block of Marsden Street.

Yatzirys, who was set to turn 3 in May, was bruised from head to toe and had gashes on her forehead and scalp, Lightsey told reporters Monday.

“There were open wounds that seemed to be pretty old on her head,” she added. “There were what appeared to be knuckle marks, punch marks on the top of her head.”

Cirilo-Fuentes was considered the child’s godmother, Lightsey said, and her mother left the girl in her care beginning in November. Prosecutors would not say what prompted the mother to give up custody of Yatzirys, but they said she has been cooperating with the investigation. ( Court documents indicate that the child’s godmother, Yaritza Cirilo-Fuentes, 32, was caring for her on the day in question. Cirilo-Fuentes told detectives that the child’s mother didn’t have heat in her home and that Yatzirys had been living with her for months, along with Helen Smith, 42, a friend who also lives in the residence.)

“She believed that the child would be safe there, and, obviously, that belief was wrong,” Lightsey said.

Pair charged with beating death of 2-year-old - Metro Philadelphia

Two women have been charged with murder after a 2-year-old girl was found beaten to death last week in Tacony. Assistant District Attorney Chesley Lightsey said Yaritza Cirilo-Fuentes, 32, and Helen Smith, 42, subjected the girl, Yatzirys Rodriguez, to “horrific, long-term torture” before she...

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[GoneWest]

The term godmother on D&D seems to hold as much meaning as fiancé.

 

[Victoria]

Horrific long term torture. Covered from head to toe with bruising. Open wounds and gashes on the forehead and the top of this child's head with knuckle and punch marks thrown in for good measure.

Only the worst of the worst monsters could torture a child as this one was tortured. My heart just broke a bit.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

 

[Busy Bee]

Two females beating on a defenseless child, I just don’t understand! Wicked and evil black hearted monsters. Yatzirys you deserved so much more, a life with a family who loves and cherished you, wanted you to grow to see your accomplishments.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Still no images of these she-beasts to be found.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The woman charged in the beating death of her 2-year-old goddaughter more than three years ago in Northeast Philadelphia was sentenced to 5 ½ to 12 years behind bars during an emotional hearing on Tuesday.

Yaritza Cirilo-Fuentes, 36, cried as prosecutors read a letter from the toddler’s mother, which said she had trusted Cirilo-Fuentes as the girl’s godmother.

Prosecutors said the mother left the 2-year-old girl in Cirilo-Fuentes’ care when she was financially strapped. She couldn’t properly care for the toddler but didn’t want child services to step in.

In March 2021, the girl was found unresponsive inside a Tacony home with old wounds and open gashes on her head, as well as old bruises on her body. She died at the hospital.

Another woman, Helen Smith, who lived with Cirilo-Fuentes, was also charged and pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to commit third-degree murder and endangering the welfare of children. Smith was later sentenced to five to 12 years in prison.

Cirilo-Fuentes pleaded guilty to those same charges in January.

Cirilo-Fuentes tearfully apologized to the child’s family on Tuesday, saying she thinks about the girl every day. She then apologized to her own family, including her six children, acknowledging that she won’t be there to raise them now that she’s behind bars.

Judge Diana Anhalt sentenced Cirilo-Fuentes to 5 ½ to 12 years in prison, plus probation. Anhalt said she could never understand how a person with children of her own could participate in such an act.

https://www.michaeldiamondstein.com/news/northeast-philly-woman-sentenced-in-beating-death-of-2-year-old-goddaughter/

Helen "Dead Eye" Smith & Yaritza "Breeder" Cirilo-Fuentes,

 

[the cat did it]

That's a shit sentence, a joke, a slap in the face of that poor baby and her family.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

That's a shit sentence, a joke, a slap in the face of that poor baby and her family.

Most of the sentences for child killers/abusers are a joke.