Norwalk Day Care Owner Was Emailing When Child Died: Report

NORWALK, CT — The former owner of a Norwalk day care facility, where a child died in 2016, was out walking her dogs and then sending sexually explicit messages to a man before the child was found dead, according to the suspect's arrest warrant, reports the Norwalk Hour and News 12 Connecticut.

Corinne Magda, a four-month-old girl, was one of five children at Christine Limone's home day care facility on Oct. 5, 2016. The arrest warrant says that Corinne and the other children had not been checked upon for more than an hour when Corinne was found dead.

According to state police, Limone had put the child down to sleep at about noon, an assistant checked on the child about 15 minutes later, and she was still alive.

Limone, who is the daughter of Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling, went out with the dogs, came back, and sent the assistant home; she then got into the email exchange with the man for close to half an hour, according to state police.

When she went to check on the child, the little girl was dead, according to state police.

Patch reached out to Limone's attorney, Frank Riccio, who said the two will "vigorously" defend against the charges.

Limone is free without bond and faces five felony counts of risk of injury to a minor in connection with the case. She is scheduled to appear in court on June 22.

"Ms. Limone and I plan on vigorously defending these charges," Riccio told Patch. "Ms. Limone and I have yet to review the evidence so cannot comment on the content of the warrant, but assuming the factual contents of the warrant are accurate I cannot see where her action rise to the level of criminal conduct."

Riccio reiterated those sentiments with News 12 Connecticut, saying that the incident was tragic, but that the warrant does not show that the child's death was related to anything involving his client.

Corinne's death was ruled as "sudden unexpected infant death" while the child was sleeping, according to medical examiners.

Read the Norwalk Hour story; read the News 12 Connecticut story.