20-year-old mother Kristel Candelario found her 16-month-old daughter Jailyn dead after leaving her home alone for eight days while she was vacationing in Puerto Rico and Detroit. Candelario has been charged with murder. WKYC’s Matt Rascon reports.
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So sad
What is wrong with people these days?
The biggest threat to humanity is humans. Some people are dmber than you can possibly imagine.
@Hingle McCringleberry Or callous.
Godless
Let me guess. The mental angle. It works for many.
How awful! How absolutely insane. Tragic.
NO human being “deserves” to be killed.
The mum does!
NONE of that adds up.
This is absolutely heartbreaking. Who goes on holiday for eight days with a baby home alone? How come neighbours never heard the lone baby screaming?
🧸 🐇 🎈 .
@Ariel Sea Right, it wasn’t Kristel Candelario’s fault her baby actually died. At worst she is just guilty of child abuse. Just like you, she thought the neighbors would hear the baby crying and rescue her in plenty of time. How could she possibly know the neighbors would hear her crying for days and not go over. Of course the baby was too weak to cry very loudly the second day without food or water so the mother actually expected the baby to be heard and rescued that first 24 hours of lustily crying out. After that she rested assured for the rest of her vacation that her baby Jailyn was safely in her neighbor’s arms. Yeah right. That is completely reasonable assumption for you and Mom to make.
@Meme Bzk You are right. Of course the crying would be on and off. No baby cries continually. She would have cried herself to sleep many times that first day and it would only be a short 24 hours before she was too weak to cry out loudly at all. Babies dehydrate very quickly. Betty Gore was murdered in 1980 and her baby (around a year old) was left unattended for only 13 hours. Neighbors went over to the house to check on the family at the insistence of Mr. Gore who was away on business and worried when his wife wouldn’t answer the phone. The first neighbor Richard Parker went to the house, knock on the door, walked to the back of the house, and then he went home and told Allan Gore everything was okay. He hadn’t heard any baby crying either and it had only been 13 hours. Do these idiots think he is lying? He went back to the house (knocking on doors) and left twice reporting everything was okay before Allan insisted he and other neighbors break in the house. They knocked on doors using a flashlight (like cops), they called out- no baby cried out for help. Even after getting into the house, calling out many times for Betty, they heard no baby. It wasn’t until Lester Gayler walked into the second bedroom (already inspected the first and no baby cried) and turned on the light did he wake the baby in that room and heard her hoarse pathetic cry for help. 12 hours more and little Bethany wouldn’t have been able to cry much at all. Are the neighbor’s all lying that the baby didn’t cry? Of course not. The only person to blame is Candy Montgomery – the murderer. These people are idiots.
Neglected children often learn that creating noise does not draw caring attention.
Plus they may learn that creating noise draws the opposite. Results reinforce behaviour.
@GheekGoddesswell this post wins the DUMBEST comment of the day.
@SlideRulePirate That’s true too.
Taking a vacation and leaving a 16 month old home alone! How horrible! The mother knew her neighbors would have cared for the child. This is child abandonment. That poor baby must have suffered terribly.
A child with high caloric needs and, like anyone, can only go three day with out water. Most people are are dmber than you can possibly imagine.
It’s beyond child abandonment, this is negligent homicide
@Hingle McCringleberryyes they are are
So true, unfortunately
I hope this doesn’t be the new thing that women do to their unwanted children.
Why she leave her baby alone why she take her baby with her or have someone whact her the baby still could be still been alive and she was be gone more than eight days she should told someone to take care of her baby . The mother more interested about on vacation than her child .
Modern women
@Robert MarleyNo, just one particular sick woman. There are still mothers would who die themselves before letting anything happen to their children.
Drop the kid(s) off at the police station, they didn’t hear or see any signs of the baby at home alone at any point and time (the neighbors)?
No universal health care, no child care, no paternity leave, federal minimum wage is still $7.50
The GOP loves stories like these. Late stage capitalism demands desperate workers.
Is this real? How could any human do this? 😢
She’s not the only one. Another mother in the UK did the same thing and only got 9 years for it. 9 Y E A R S!
It’s situations like that the titan submersible would come in handy. Load it up with child abusers, rapists, and serial killers and drop it in the ocean. A trap door opens when they get to the bottom. The end.
Why not include all bad people!! You me everyone. We all deserve death because of our disobedience to GOD & each other. Don’t judge people for what they’ve done and act like your a saint. ALL FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY!! This is why people need Jesus Christ to come into their hearts, cleanse their SINS and be forgiven IF They REPENT!!
@Jason A Soldier4Christ Sins and gods don’t exist.
@Jason A Soldier4Christ will some words and tears change youre judgement on a baby killer? wake up to the real world pal
@Jason A Soldier4ChristI think it’s so foolish to compare someone who intentionally murders their child to someone who might eat too many slices of pizza. They are not the same. I am a Christian and yes we all have aspects of our lives we can work on but we’re not comparing who is the worse sinner when some of us are doing our best and would genuinely lay our life on the line for any child. Why are you so quick to defend people who hurt the innocent. Nothing will fix what they’ve done. It is not the same.
What a disgusting POS and waste of space. Leaving an infant alone for even 1 hour is so wrong. Anything could happen. But leaving an infant alone for 8 days?
They now say it was in fact 10 days…
Wait. Where were the people next door? They went on vacation too? This just doesn’t add up.
I keep seeing people comment this as if you know these people what if the neighbors barley spend time at home ?? Why are we even worried about the neighbors !!!! The mom left her innocent child not the neighbors
@Cost2coast97 you are suppose to call Fu***** child services. they knew such pieces of s***
No, it was a separate incident where she left her with the neighbors for a month and a half…. They need to clarify it, but she left the baby alone this time.
Some people really shouldn’t have kids .
So make abortion legal.
She used the baby’s SNAP benefits on her vacation….smh!
@Al WIt already is but shouldn’t be. Baby lives matter.
@G. Markavis It should be legal. There’s no societal benefit to restricting abortion rights. There are societal benefits to having those rights. It’s just people like you who want to force your religious beliefs onto the rest of us. Shame on you.
@Al WContraception works better. Bunch of lazy people
Kristel Candelario- Ok honey I’m going on vacation foods in the fridge call if anything.
Something is seriously wrong with that woman.
The signs were there and they chose to ignore them. When you ask someone to watch your kid for a few days then dont show up till a month and a half “Thats a Problem!”. If that was me I would of called social services and maybe if she had done that this baby would of been still alive in the custody of the state or in foster care.
Yes.
Yes, I bet they are regretting that now. No good mother I know could willingly be apart from their baby that long, especially with strangers they had just met. She literally didn’t even know these people, she met them for the first time when she left her baby for the weekend, which most mothers wouldn’t do period – let alone 6 weeks! 😮
Not everyone is quick to call child services. The kids just get put in foster care and go from foster home to foster home being sexually and physically abused.
Clearly the neighbors dropped the ball. They should have called social services when she neglected the baby for 6 weeks, maybe the baby would still be alive . Terrible ! It’s people in the world that can’t have children that deserve them over these kind of unfit mothers . We live in a world full of sick individuals.
Yes to the people who should have children but cannot for whatever reason, then these special cases blessed with a life? So unjust
PLEASE…PLEASE!!!!….lock her up and throw away the key..at Sea!!!.. R.I.P. LITTLE ANGEL..😔 😢😔
So dumb
That is… disgusting! She never liked that baby… cause if you have given that baby to the neighbors before to take care of you’d do it again. No… it seems she didn’t want that baby to be cared for.
The neighbors were just as bad they were complaining about milk and food when they did have her so they didn’t care either .
Social civil illness fully rampant to the neck of any time fully explosion for civilization erosion and on govt callous on it. A mindless dead nation it says.
I’m super confused. Maybe I missed something. Did the neighbors have the baby while she was gone? They mentioned they were only watching her a few days? The mother never returned? Did they just drop off the baby and left her alone? Or are they describing a previous time this woman had pulled this stunt?
It was worded weirdly but no that incident happened last year. The neighbor watched her that time. This time the mom just left her alone from the beginning 😢
@Annie Aldecoayeah they need to clarify that. The neighbors are sick over what happened and they make it sound ambiguous.
They loved her very much. 🙄. Just don’t say anything is my advice.
The neighbors are just as guilty in my opinion . When she left and asked them to watch her for 3 days that turned into 6 weeks . It was very appropriate to call social services . I don’t care to hear the neighbors story at this point . They failed the baby also in my opinion .
How someone not so smart can afford to live in a nice house like this
inheritance from grandparents probably
Doesn’t mean she wasn’t smart. Just means she is pure unadulterated evil.
I read in another article that her parents lived there with the mother and they had taken their older granddaughter somewhere on vacation before she left. What is in the mind of a woman who leaves a child all alone like this? I can’t even imagine!
If you can afford a vacation, you can afford a babysitter! 😡
EXACTLY… side question, I wonder what happened with the baby father
Maybe they got a divorce and the mother got full custody which is what usually happens in divorce cases.
@damnmay be she never married or don’t even know who is her father 😐 She was mentally ill for sure
Letting your child die because you went on vacation is one thing. But vacation in Puerto Rico and Detroit???
2 words: death penalty
Just as appalling as killing as a preborn baby right up until the moment of birth.
They should be charged too for child endangerment resulting in death thats manslaughter thats absolutely horrific
No plea deals. It just waters down the sentence.
I think it counts as 1st or 2nd degree murder, not manslaughter.
Woman are way worse than men these woman and mother let this angel die from dehydration and starvation you leave in a house and couldn’t afford formula like y’all don’t have food stamps Jesus Christ wept
Not worse… we have higher expectations for women to care for kids compared to men. Any parent who does this is a monster.
dang, i hate when that happens. Dont forget to feed and water them.
Now she’ll have a long, free vacation. IN PRISON.
But illicit drug use is a victimless crime
To any parent on the edge, not wanting to cope with kids… google crisis nursery and call your nearest one, they will listen and find resources to keep kid safe and you out of jail. There are answers which this mom didn’t seek.
Even animals love,care,and protect their babies,are human beings worse than animals if yes they shouldn’t get married.
If a dog was left with the baby it would have taken care of it
@Robert Marley a dog cannot take care of the baby,it is her parents responsibility.
Jesus
Wait so the neighbors that did watch the poor baby just left the baby alone ?!? No no no.. no…
No, the mom left the baby once before with the neighbors and the mom didn’t show up for a month and a half. Neighbors were calling the mom for food and milk money during that month and a half but the mom didn’t care.
They should have reported her for negligence.
We need to protect access to abortions and we need to celebrate parents who surrender their children for adoption. No child should be made to suffer because their parents don’t want them.
Well death in the womb vs. death at 16 months. What’s the difference? Killed baby in either case.
She should have been on that submarine 😢😢😢
My condolences 💐🙏🏽💧👑
My son is around that Poor babies age, I hope the inmates hear about her.
Indeed. May have to isolate her. Leave her alone in isolation for ten days without food or water. See how that goes.
@BeatusLepus I’m so numb to the world, there’s always something tragic but I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this. I keep imagining that Poor girl dying in her own poop just hoping to see someone and nobody coming to her. God, I have never felt this level of hate for someone.
@agustinreyes6111 me too. I think about her being alone at night, in the dark. 💔💔
You have to be freaking kidding me. How in the world are you going to leave your babe by themselves on a week vacation!!! ****UP!!!
Death Penalty!
locking it up isnt enough for me. it needs to be done as it did the poor baby. left in a cold empty cell for days without anything to eat and very little to drink so she can live out the full 8 days alone.
I don’t know
When I read about this news
I just wanted to see her face. A face of a mother killing her infant
They should just lock that mom in solitary confinement, then never bring her food or water, and just wait it out until she dies.
Where was the father of the child I wonder? Sad that she did not appreciate the precious child when we have women who want to be mothers and cannot conceive. That woman is sick in the head.
The neighbor sound weird too because if it was me I would told welfare that she abandoned the baby and still would had provided by any means
like after the neighbor told her she needs to pay how did the baby return home if she was gone for those many day why or how tf did the baby get left? alone and was the baby last left in the neighbor care ?Did the neighbor have a disagreement with the mother about providing and was told to leave the baby at the mother empty home ?or out of anger did the neighbor just took the baby back to a empty house? if so they’re to blame just as much as the mother Because the neighbor could be also lying She probably agreed upon those days and when she didn’t receive the money took that baby back over there to die
No watch and listen to the video again. LAST YEAR, the Mom left the baby with the neighbors saying she would only be gone a few days but ended up leaving for over a month.
This time she left and didn’t leave the baby with the neighbors at all. Just left the baby at home alone. The neighbors wish she would have left the baby with them again like last time and avoided this tragedy.
Now babies are suffering dying of horrendous deaths because abortion is being taking away
Unbelievable cruelty and stupidity. Poor little baby…
Wow. Starving to death might actually be better than being raised by the kind of psychopathic, sadistic parent that would let you die like that. Heartbreaking 💔
Lock the mom and don’t give no food or water until she stops breathing and question those neighbors for not at least calling someone police, cps, something smh jesus
Terrible neighbors !
Those neighbors never hear any baby crying? I mean their houses are just almost adjacent?
Exactly… or did they chose to ignore bc they were tired of her asking them to take care of the baby… the baby must have screamed or cried.. someone could’ve called the police…
Y’all calling for punishment and certainly it is probably justified, but I wonder if the mother isn’t legitimately mentally ill to do something like this? But on the other hand she was “sane” enough to schedule and go on vacation. I guess its just hard to believe someone could be so cruel on purpose.
WOW! So this isn’t the first time the baby was left alone and no-one contacted children services 🤔
This is the BS I be talking about… Everybody wanna speak up after the tragedy, but clearly knew the mom was a POS…
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
Start speaking 🔊up beforehand!!
So many shootings 🔫
So much child abuse 💔
Throwing babies 👶 in trash cans🗑
I’m just sick of ALL of these TRAGEDIES!!
If U SEE 👀 something SAY 📣 something
The neighbors are just as guilty! I don’t care to hear their story at all.
She lived with her parents and they went on a holiday with her older daughter. They must have known she was crazy and irresponsible too.
@Renske de jonge wow! The parents knew 1st hand and they failed the grand baby too 😢😢. I love my grandson and there is no way I could allow him to be neglected .
Goodness gracious!!!! 😔😱😡
This monster deserves the same fate she left for the baby. Leave her in a room with no food or water till’ she’s dead. 💯
Something is wrong with this woman
I hope she spend the rest of her life in jail
I’ve seen animals taking Better care of their offsprings. As to the neighbours they should have been more proactive given the information they had prior. This is an extremely sad story.
0:28 This self centered b**** knew the mother was gone, but refused to care over money– she should’ve calledcthe cops! 🤬
Yup that’s your typical American mother nowadays. Motherly instinct is nonexistent as you can see with all these young teenagers running around murdering people.
If you don’t want kids don’t have them😑😮💨
The vacation couldn’t have been that important.
So sad 😢😢
Stupid mother and father…..seriously it’s a child …. not a dog house sitting…..😢😢
If she left with some dude she a simp
If I was the neighbor I would’ve kept the baby and found a way to buy her milk now she says she misses her but didn’t have money for milk she’s not a good person herself so she needs to just stay quiet as far as the mom lock her up starve her for life
The mother and neighbors both should be responsible. There’s noway no one heard the baby cry…..
Along with the mother I also blame the neighbors. She has done this often. Why wasn’t child services notified ?
💯 the neighbors failed the baby ! If they would have called then the baby would be alive . I’m not happy with the neighbors either . I feel like they failed this baby. I don’t want to hear the neighbors story at this point. They knew she was not a good mother so at this point they are just as guilty . They said she was an absentee mother . Why do they want to tell their story now.
What’s even more sad, the baby is free, don’t have to pay for flight tickets unless you want too.
What’s Kristel thinking about leaving her 16 month old alone for a vacation? There’s something wrong with her. I can’t imagine the baby starving to death probably crying the whole time. She tortured that poor baby. RIP 😥
Truly tragic I hope she spends every single day of her life in prison.
This is the result of lack of family system, kids out of wedlock & not getting married at the right age etc
Inconceivable. Lock her up in the nut house. Put her among the screamers. 24/7. She’ll soon join the choir.
Let the punishment fit the crime- lock her up and throw away the key.
“Mother” needs to die exact the same way that her baby daughter died!!
The fact that the neighbors cared more about her than her own mother did …so sad.
Why this is so awful? I can’t believe this was her own mother. She must of been so scared. Smh rip 🙏🏽
I have a 17 mon old baby and he makes me so happy everyday. I can’t imagine how this poor girl must’ve suffered, probably toddling around an empty, dark house looking for her mother and dirty diapers. She probably slept on the cold, hard floor all by herself hungry and needing a hug!! I’m so sorry I didn’t know about you little girl!
I hope this woman gets locked in solitary confinement and forgotten about, like she did her daughter.
May this woman be severely punished. Sorry for the little angel 💝😥. Rest in peace little angel ❤️🙏🏻