Leila Aquino, 21, faces three years’ probation after pleading guilty Friday to criminally negligent homicide in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Kalenah Muldrow, in February, CBS News reports.
Aquino was out working as a stripper when her apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., caught fire. When she returned home, firefighters had already put out the flames, and firefighters later discovered Kalenah's body underneath a bed.
According to CBS News, Aquino later admitted that she had left her daughter home alone with the television on.
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She pleaded guilty in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn and must enter a program with the Women's Prison Association.
Read more at CBS News.