The
Texan day care worker who left young children in her house while she
went on a shopping trip to Target was today sentenced to 80 years in
jail after four of the children died and three others were injured
when a fire started in her home.
On
Tuesday, Houston jurors sentenced 24-year-old Jessica Tata to 80
years in prison for the death of one of the children, 16-month-old
Elias Castillo. She still faces charges related to the rest of the
children.
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'Nobody wins in this situation,' the young victim’s'
great-grandmother Patty Sparks said after the sentence was announced.
Investigators
said the February 2011 blaze happened when a pan of oil she had left
cooking on the stove ignited while she was out shopping.
She
will have to serve 30 years of her sentence before she is eligible
for parole.
Tata also was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.
Tata also was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.
Jurors deliberated her punishment for seven hours over two
days and she had no visible reaction after the sentence was
announced.
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