MESSAGE FROM PROSECUTOR SHERRI BEVAN WALSH
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(330) 643-8386
Daycare Owner Who Left Baby in Car Pleads No
Contest
(January 18, 2012…
On September 2, 2011,
Scott inadvertently left one-year-old Aolani McCray in the third-row seat of an
SUV for hours while she and the other children in her care visited with her
mother. The temperature that day was in the 90s. McCray died later that day at
Akron Children’s Hospital.
“This is a
heartbreaking tragedy for everyone involved,” said Summit County Prosecutor
Sherri Bevan Walsh. “We accepted Ms. Scott’s plea in accordance with the wishes
of the victim’s parents, who are showing tremendous compassion in the face of a
very emotionally difficult situation.”
Judge Tom Parker
immediately sentenced Scott to five years of community control and 200 hours of
community service. Scott is barred from providing any sort of childcare while
under community control and must undergo a mental health screening. If Scott
violates the terms of her community control, she will spend three years in
prison.
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