Babysitter Who Caused Death of Child Ordered to Pay Family $4K in Compensation
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Channel: Greater Belize Media | GBM · 2018 · News & Politics
For the latest news across Belize, visit: http://edition.channel5belize.com/ A woman has been ordered to pay the family of two-year-old Vernice Rodriguez Gonzalez four thousand dollars for causing her death. Thirty-one-year-old Danna Banner appeared before Justice Colin Williams who spared her a custodial sentence but rather, ordered her to pay the monetary compensation plus a two thousand-dollar fine after she pleaded guilty to causing death by careless conduct. The case dates back to more than ten years ago, in May 2008, when Vernice died at the K.H.M.H. A post-mortem revealed that she died due to blunt force trauma to the head. Banner accepted that she had physically punished the child and consequently caused her death. In court today, while apologizing to the family Banner as Justice Williams for leniency. News Five’s Hipolito Novelo reports.
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