(Joycelynn Ann Dylewski. Photo by Sun Nigeria)
A three-year-old girl in the United States has d!ed after suffering severe neglect at the hands of her parents, with authorities describing the conditions she was forced to live in as deplorable and unconscionable.
Joycelynn Ann Dylewski was found to have been living in a squalid apartment in Corinth, upstate New York, where investigators discovered bugs on her face and scalp, rotten and blackened teeth, and wall-to-wall garbage and debris filling the rooms.
A cockroach was reportedly found inside the child’s winter hat.
The property was subsequently condemned due to the severity of the conditions.
The Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation after officers responded to the home last February following reports that the child could not breathe.
She was rushed to hospital but later d!ed. Authorities determined that Joycelynn Ann had been suffering from a severe lice infestation that went untreated for weeks, possibly months, ultimately leading to an anaemia diagnosis.
The infestation caused damage to her heart and other organs.
She had also not received any medical care in the ten months preceding her d£ath and had been given clonidine a blood pressure medication not prescribed to her according to Saratoga County Sheriff Jeffrey Brown.
Her parents, Matthew Dylewski, 34, and Samantha Dylewski, 33, pleaded guilty earlier this year to criminally negligent homicide.
Both were handed the maximum sentence of four years in custody by Saratoga County Judge James Davis, who described their conduct in the strongest terms.
“She was a three-year-old, and you failed in the most horrific way. She was completely reliant upon you.
This was completely preventable, and it’s unconscionable,” Judge Davis said.
New York State Senator Jim Tedisco stated that Joycelynn Ann had d!ed due to complications of acute and chronic neglect.
The couple, who also share four other children, have been barred from any contact with their surviving children until 2038.
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