24 year old Nigerian/American woman, Jessica Tata, was sentenced to 80
years in prison on Monday November 20th after being found guilty of the
death of one of four children killed in a fire at her home day care in
Houston.
16-month-old Elias Castillo and three other toddlers died after Tata left them unsupervised at her
home while she went to a nearby store. Prosecutors say she left a
pan of oil cooking atop a stovetop burner and that this ignited the
February 2011 blaze. There were 7 children when the fire started, four died, three survived.
Tata still faces three more counts of felony murder in relation to the
other children who died, and three counts of abandoning a child and two
counts of reckless injury to a child in relation to three who were hurt.
So she will be getting more years added to the 80 as other cases come
up.