Court Plea Entered In Fatal Stamford Daycare Case

STAMFORD, CT — Nydia Carrillo-Maldonado, the former owner a Stamford daycare facility where two-month-old New Canaan infant Bella Redondo died in 2016, pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday and will serve three and a half years in prison, writes the Stamford Advocate.

Under a plea agreement, Carrillo-Maldonado pleaded guilty first-degree manslaughter and first-degree risk of injury to a minor, the violations for which she had been arrested in August of 2016, about a month after Redondo died. In addition to prison time, Carrillo-Maldonado also was given five years probation.

Carrillo-Maldonado could have faced as much as 30 years in prison if she had been convicted of both charges. Her plea was under the Alford Doctrine, which essentially means she did not agree with the verdict but acknowledged she could have possibly been convicted based on evidence.

Bella Redondo was having difficulty breathing when Carrillo-Maldonado called 911 on the afternoon of July 12, 2016. The child died hours later at Stamford Hospital, but the case was ruled a homicide because medical examiners discovered the child had suffered blunt-force trauma to the head.

Click here to read the full story on the Advocate website.

Photo: Nydia Carrillo-Maldonado. Photo credit: Stamford Police Department

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