Sentenced: 20MO Girl Died After Being Left Alone In Scorching Hot Bedroom For 14 Hours

[kennasmom]

Even a nine month old? I was a pretty chill mom, but even if I give her the 8-9 hour pass for the 20 month old in the sweltering room, I cannot for a nine month old.

I think mom was tweaked out and left her babies to convection bake.

I don't know, my kids didn't sleep 8 straight hours so I wouldn't know if I would too. They just stopped waking me up in the middle of the night last year. They are 22, 21 and 9... years old lol.

 

[FrayedKnot]

I don't know, my kids didn't sleep 8 straight hours so I wouldn't know if I would too. They just stopped waking me up in the middle of the night last year. They are 22, 21 and 9... years old lol.

Mine is 17 and was a really great sleeper. I see your point— I never would have woken to her call.

But until she was about 18 months, I still breastfed....and even if I had not, I would have def checked on a 9-12 month old—especially in a concerningly hot room.

 

[kennasmom]

Mine is 17 and was a really great sleeper. I see your point— I never would have woken to her call.

But until she was about 18 months, I still breastfed....and even if I had not, I would have def checked on a 9-12 month old—especially in a concerningly hot room.

In all seriousness, my oldest never slept. My youngest was a great sleeper though, she did sleep all night, sometimes over nine hours starting around six months, and often I would wake up when she woke me up. Either way though, I wouldn't have been able to sleep unless her room was comfortable and I knew it. The other thing that's so weird is I wouldn't fall asleep where I couldn't hear my kid, either in earshot or a monitor. Who has another person listen for the baby and then come get you? If it's not my kid, even if I was grandma, that arrangement wouldn't fly.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

maybe if I was a teen mom who thought life woud be great if only I had a baby because I came from broken/non existent home, but I was sure that bio teen dad would make us all a family, but it didn't work out, and , dayum, I'm just a discarded teen mom, struggling to make other people care. And they are sort of trying, but can't do any better than me.
But dayum, my baby died because no one else made enough effort.. And DD people have made it so much worse with their damn opinions!

So now we are suing the corporation least liable for this disaster.

Right. I understand it all now.

 

[Siobhan]

@Sotiredofthisshit , you're simply full of shit.

My spouse and I installed an A/C unit last weekend that required some light assembly, and as two women, had zero problems doing a simple job like this, after removing *everything* from the packaging box - including all styrofoam and instructions - which always come in a sealed plastic bag, along with all operational, warranty and registration information.
It isn't fucking rocket science, whether it's a central heat/air unit or a window unit, the main difference is the 220 power supply for a central A/C really needs it's own breaker (yeah, we know how to do that too, even back when we were your age) and the tedious work is connecting the lengths of vent hosing for a central unit to the home's intake area; versus slide it in, balance it, secure the window on the frame and plug it into a 110 outlet for a window A/C.
We've done both easily, and multiple times.

But please, do keep talking, as both prosecutors and corporate attorneys use Google extensively against criminals and civil suit claimants, and you've given them all more than enough already to use against you, both for prosecution and any civil case you attempt to bring against the A/C manufacturer - which if you lose, you must pay all court costs and attorneys fees, and corporate lawyer's fees alone will run you a minimum of $100K.

Either way, you've fried your own ass with your posting here.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

Either way, you've fried your own ass with your posting here.

@Sotiredofthisshit yeah , all that.
Isn't there a single older person in your life advising you to get off ths site? or any other where you have popped in to "explain"? Maybe your defense attorney? dayum girl, dig the hole deeper.... a hot hole with defective a/c.

 

[Prettypink513]

It isn't fucking rocket science

According to her logic, you have to have a degree in engineering in order to put those AC thingies together

 

[cubby]

Only a degree in adulting. We had one we put in the kitchen because the central air wasn't up to it, you open the box, take the unit out, attach the vent tube, put it in a window and plug it up, and then every several hours you have to empty the condensation bucket. Didn't really need instructions for that, Used that thing until we moved and didn't need it.

 

[ChaosKitty]

Just goes to show how different sites say different shit.
It was clearly stated in interviews that the Grand father installed it. Austin doesnt even know what store it was bought at.
Second if you read where i addressed the AC if it was malfunctioning then the authorities wouldnt have been able to “test” the temperature. Without tampering with the AC which would mean that they shouldnt be able to use what the results were because they tampered with it. Also if it malfunctioned my son wouldnt be alive? Because it was the cold air coming out the front that kept him alive. Even the doctors stated that.
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I respond to what i want to respond to. Its just sad tbh that there are this many people that cant put themselves in others shoes and instead want to act like they know everything.
And they will be the 5th and the AC company is currently being sued
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Im not a horrible mother or human being. Yall simply want to just jump at whatever you can to attack others.
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Actually not picking fights simply stating facts. Which im allowed to do??
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Actually if math is done using the correct times its 8 hours so
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In the state of PA it is federal law that it is up to the MANUFACTURER to properly build and check for safety + add warnings no matter how small the chance of harm is. They did not. Not to mention the AC according to the manufacturer themself has a “safety sensor that detects if the hose is hooked into vent the hot air or not and that it will not start to run if the hose is not plugged in, and will stop running if the hose comes undone at anytime.” Pair that with the fact that this isn't the only case involving this companies machinery and fatalities due to their machinery, many including the same AC product. it does fall on the manufacturer.

bitch if you are so brain dead that you can't roughly gauge the temperature without any appliances you you be put in the not bin, I take better care of my cats and barn animals than that with monitoring the temperature, can guess it usually within 2 to 5 degrees, please don't breed for the safety of humanity. Once the incompetence of an adult is responsible for death or serious injury all soffy feels are out the window, nah hard pass, billion and 1 things that could have been dine if rim/house was hot to ensure the safety of others unable to do so for themselves

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Cole, Mary
Endangering Welfare of Children - Guilty Plea
Probation Min: 3 Year(s) Max: 3 Year(s)

 

[Sugar Cookie]

This was a great thread.

Mary never came back to tell us how she was found not guilty since she wasn't.

Austin was too stipid to know that the AC needed to be vented so the charges against him were dropped.

• Dec 10, 2021

A 21-year-old woman pleaded guilty Friday in Lackawanna County Court to a felony and acknowledged she failed to supervise her two young children in Scranton, which led to one of their deaths in 2018.

Judge Vito Geroulo immediately sentenced Mary Cole to three years of probation.

In pleading guilty to endangering the welfare of children, Cole admitted she left her children, Liam and Nicole Heaton, alone for 14 hours Aug. 12, 2018, accorded to an amended information filed in court Friday.

Cole failed to check the status of a portable air conditioner, which Scranton police initially said in February 2019 was improperly installed and instead acted as a furnace, pouring hot exhaust into a small room where the children slept and spiking the temperature there to above 100 degrees.

That failure led to tragedy, according to the plea.

Liam, 8-months-old at the time, survived but his older sister, 20-month-old Nicole, later died of hyperthermia and dehydration at Moses Taylor Hospital. She had a body temperature of 106.6 degrees.

Scranton police initially charged Cole with involuntary manslaughter and other offenses.

Detectives originally also charged the child’s father, Austin Heaton, 23, alleging he improperly installed the air conditioner. Geroulo dismissed charges against Heaton in 2020, finding his incorrect use of the air conditioner did not rise to the level of recklessness required to sustain the charges. There was no evidence he knew the unit had to be vented.

While Geroulo dismissed charges against Heaton, he let the case against Cole stand because her failure to check on the children violated her duty of care.

Cole’s attorney, Joseph McGraw, asked for immediate sentencing and requested her punishment instead be probation, noting she was a teenage mother with a ninth-grade education who was not prepared for the role. The deadly incident that day was the “result of children trying to raise children.”

She was “adrift without a paddle” and could benefit from court supervision while on probation, he said. She attends therapy to treat post traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and borderline personality disorder and works as a freelance video editor. She plans to complete her studies and attain her GED so she can pursue a degree in graphic design from Liberty University, her attorney said.

As part of the plea agreement, the Lackawanna County district attorney’s office would not object to a probationary sentence, Geroulo noted.

Geroulo called Nicole’s death “tragic’ and agreed with McGraw’s characterization that the parents were children trying to raise children.

While she was careless, “I can’t find there being any basis for malice or ill intent in this situation at all,” the judge said. Sending Cole to jail would only compound the tragedy, he added.

Cole must complete drug and alcohol and mental health evaluations, enroll in grief counseling and continue with her education.

Woman pleads guilty in 2018 death of Scranton toddler

A 21-year-old woman pleaded guilty Friday to a felony in Lackawanna County Court and acknowledged she failed to supervise her two young children in 2018 in Scranton, which led to

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To bad they could not order that she refrains from getting pregnant until she grows the hell up.

 

[cubby]

If they had stayed in the room with the kids for longer than a minute after the AC was turned on they would have known that the heat coming out the back of it was hot enough to melt something left too close to it.

As I said before we had one and it is absolutely essential that it's vented and the condensation bucket emptied, that will fill up and overflow. When she finally went to see about the kids she most likely stepped right into a stifling hot swamp, where she had left her kids for 14 hours. The AC was not only pulling the moisture out of the air but also out of her babies.

 

[DivineRAiNz]

That's a bullshit slap on the wrist sentence.
Closed the door on those babies made it easier to ignore them for 14 hours and I'm sure that was their routine. That isn't a "young" mother thing, that isn't a 9th grade education thing.. that's just being a bad self centered mother thing. They are found in all ages. I'm sure those babies were crying when they could and this bitch ignored them.

 

[Jellyfish Brain]

Hey look. She finally told the truth. It was 14 hours.

Bitch needs to super glue that pussy. And read a book.

 

[cubby]

Hey look. She finally told the truth. It was 14 hours.

Bitch needs to super glue that pussy. And read a book.

Probably doesn't know how to read, remember this is the Tik-Tok generation.