A 32-year-old Quincy lady who was convicted of beating her 11-month-old niece to demise was sentenced to as much as 7 years in state jail on Thursday.
Shu Feng Hsu was just lately discovered responsible of manslaughter for fatally pummeling her niece Chloe Chen 5 years in the past. Hsu had been babysitting Chloe for a number of hours when she inflicted blunt pressure accidents to the newborn. The youngster’s post-mortem revealed that she had died as a result of infliction of trauma, together with to her head.
On Thursday, Norfolk Superior Court Judge Douglas Wilkins sentenced Hsu to five to 7 years in jail, which was imposed retroactively to November 2018; she has been in pre-trial custody since then.
The 5- to 7-year sentence can be calculated to finish as if it was imposed and had begun in November 2018. Manslaughter carries a most penalty of 20 years in state jail.
The Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office had been looking for a sentence of 15 to 18 years in jail, citing a number of aggravating elements — together with the defenselessness of the sufferer as an 11-month-old child, and the killer’s place of authority as an aunt and babysitter of the kid.
“For Chloe’s parents and surviving siblings, the impact is immeasurable,” Norfolk County assistant district attorneys wrote to the decide earlier than sentencing. “Chloe’s life was ended because it was simply starting. This court docket is entitled to think about that the defendant’s crime has eternally modified the lives of her household.
“Based on the aggravating circumstances including the vulnerability of the victim due to her very young age, that the victim was treated with particular cruelty, the position of trust of the defendant, and the lack of mitigating circumstances, the Court should adopt the Commonwealth’s recommendation,” the ADAs added.
Hsu had been dwelling with seven members of the family in a house in Quincy’s Wollaston neighborhood in February 2018, together with Chloe.
The investigation by Quincy Police and Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Norfolk DA’s Office included reviewing many hours of audio and video recordings of surveillance cameras throughout the house.
Although there was no digicam recording within the room the place Chloe was, a close-by system captured an prolonged interval of audio of the kid crying. Hsu then entered the room, and the system captured a number of thuds within the room — after which the newborn fell silent.
Following the sentencing on Thursday, Hsu was being transported to MCI Framingham.
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