Kristel Candelario gets life without parole in daughter's death after leaving 16-month home alone

Kristel Candelario, a 32-year-old Cleveland mom charged in her daughter’s death after authorities said she left the 16-month-old girl home alone for 10 days to go on vacation, has been sentenced to serve the rest of her life in prison without the possibility of parole. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Brendan J. Sheehan handed down his decision after an emotional hearing Monday morning. "As a court, I have to remember Jailyn, where you did not," Judge Sheehan said. "Just as you didn’t let Jailyn out of her confinement until she died, so too you should spend the rest of your life in a cell without freedom. The only difference will be that prison will at least feed you and give you liquids that you denied Judge Sheehan told Candelario she committed "the ultimate act of "Leaving your baby terrified, alone, unprotected to suffer what I heard was the most gruesome death imaginable with no food, no water, no protection and lying