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Grandmother arraigned in Mass. girl's death
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November 21, 2012
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TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — A Taunton grandmother has been arraigned on child endangerment charges after she allegedly left her granddaughter unattended in a bathtub last year and the baby slipped underwater and later died.
Nance Rivera had a not guilty plea entered Wednesday on her behalf at Taunton District Court and was ordered held on $2,500 bail.
Prosecutors say the 52-year-old Rivera was downstairs on the phone when 19-month-old Aylah Reed went underwater in a bathtub Rivera had overfilled in October 2011. The baby was rushed to the hospital and died two months later.
The Taunton Gazette reported (http://bit.ly/UnGHMR) that the judge questioned why prosecutors took so long to bring the case, but cited Rivera’s 12-page criminal record in deciding to set bail. The baby’s mother, Joselyn Principe, stormed from the courtroom, angry at what she considered low bail.
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