{"id":31618,"date":"2014-07-03T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=31618"},"modified":"2014-07-03T14:40:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T18:40:38","slug":"lehigh-acres-daycare-owner-gets-eight-months-for-toddler-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/07\/lehigh-acres-daycare-owner-gets-eight-months-for-toddler-drowning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Daycare Owner Gets <br>Eight Months For Toddler Drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31619\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31619 \" title=\"Melissa Smith\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Melissa-Smith-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Melissa-Smith-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Melissa-Smith.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A judge has sentenced Melissa Smith, the woman convicted of negligence in the death of 2-year-old Christian Byrd, to eight months in the county jail and five years\u2019 probation. Smith must also pay a fine of $3,000 and court costs of $413.<\/p>\n<p>The judge told the family this is one of the most difficult cases of his career, but said he could not give Smith the maximum sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a woman who is a pretty good person who made a big mistake, and there is someone on the other side who is grieving horribly, and I understand their grief, so it is tough,\u201d said Smith&#8217;s attorney, Rob Harris.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->On the three misdemeanor charges of culpable negligence, Smith will spend 60 days in jail for those, as well. The defense says she will most likely be out around Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was in jail during her trial, the judge says time served will go towards the eight-month sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Byrd drowned in a pool under Smith&#8217;s supervision in July 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has sentenced Melissa Smith, the woman convicted of negligence in the death of 2-year-old Christian Byrd, to eight months in the county jail and five years\u2019 probation. Smith&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}