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Kristel Candelario, who was sentenced to life in prison for the death of her toddler — whom she left alone for more than a week while she went on vacation — blamed her mental problems for the decision to abandon her daughter.
Candelario spoke with Noticias Telemundo on Wednesday from prison in Cleveland, Ohio, where she’s serving her sentence for the death of her 16-month-old daughter, Jailyn.
Candelario’s attorneys said they’re aiming for the court to take her mental state into account in a future appeal of her case.
When asked how it’s possible for a mother to abandon a 16-month-old baby in a house, unattended, for 10 days to go on vacation, Candelario said, “The answer is a bit difficult for the rest of the world to understand and in particular for the people
who question and point out that I have committed a diabolical act, as was mentioned in court.”
“I gave my testimony. I took the blame for my actions. I was experiencing emotional stress,” she said, adding she had been experiencing relationship issues with the girl’s father.
However, Candelario insisted that “my daughters have always been everything, my whole world to me,” and assured that Jailyn “is always in my heart and is with me wherever I go.”
Asked about the reasons for her trip to Detroit and Puerto Rico that resulted in her leaving her daughter alone, Candelario said, “It was a decision that was actually made many months before,” when she was leaving a two-month hospitalization for
mental health issues.
“I was in the hospital in January and February 2023 because I had emotional and mental problems. [On] one of those two occasions, I wanted to make an attempt on my own life. For that reason, I was in the hospital without being able to walk for exactly
almost two weeks. And in the month of March, I mean, my [now] ex-boyfriend and I wanted to take a vacation."
During the interview, Candelario attempted to free her ex-partner of any blame, saying she had told him she was going to leave the girl with her mother for the trip.
She also denied that she had purchased the tickets to travel having made the decision to leave her daughter unattended, but rather that the event occurred as a result of her mental state.
https://nbcnews.com/news/latino/ohio-mother-death-toddler-left-alone-vacation-rcna144461
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