Babysitter gets probation Missouri infant’s shaking death

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(AP) – An eastern Missouri woman was sentenced to five years of
probation for the shaking death of a 13-month-old girl in 2011.Thirty-six-year-old Jennifer Winkler of Eureka also was sentenced Monday to 500 hours of community serves and was banned from caring for children other than her own.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Winkler was originally charged with
second-degree murder and child abuse after police said she shook Lily Annabella Rieger to death at Winkler’s home day care in Eureka.

Winkler pleaded no contest to manslaughter in 2014. But she denied shaking the baby and said the girl was injured hours before Winkler began watching her.

The Missouri Attorney General’s Office, which handled the case, asked for a seven-year prison term, citing Lily’s age and her family’s suffering.

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