Three Year-old Girl Who Died Of Neglect Had Rotten Black Teeth And Lice Infestation

A three-year-old woman who died of neglect successful a squalid flat was “skin and bones”, had rotten achromatic teeth and a lice infestation, authorities said.

Joycelynn Ann Dylewski died successful infirmary connected February 19, 2025 aft her parents called an ambulance to their location successful Upstate New York saying she was struggling to breath.

Matthew Dylewski, 34, and Samantha Dylewski, 33, were arrested and subsequently charged pinch criminally negligent homicide.

They pleaded blameworthy and were handed nan maximum condemnation of 16 months to 4 years successful situation Monday. They were besides ordered to person nary further interaction pinch their 4 surviving children, each aged nether 17, until June 2038.

Her decease has led to calls for stiffer sentences, pinch New York State Sen. Jim Tedisco and among those proposing Joycelynn's Law, to alteration criminally negligent homicide from a Class E felony to a Class A and summation nan maximum condemnation to 20 years.

“This was, complete a sustained play of time, continuous neglect of a child,” Tedisco told reporters. “The child’s teeth were blackened, they were each decayed. Lice each complete nan child’s body, tegument and bones, nary nutrition.

“They moreover gave this kid an illicit drug, Clonidine, to put nan kid to slumber truthful they wouldn’t hear, I suspect, this small 3 twelvemonth aged bab’s cries of fear, anguish and pain.”

At their sentencing, Saratoga County Judge James R Davis told nan defendants nan pre-sentence study connected nan circumstances of their daughter’s decease was “the astir horrific he has ever read,” according to The Times Union.

“Your girl suffered complete a agelong play of time,” Davis said, per The Times. “Even nan different children could spot that she suffered because of your neglect.

“It’s a gift to person a child. You had respective children, and each of them suffered astatine your hands.”

Saratoga County First Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Buckley told nan tribunal Samatha Dylewski had attempted to blasted her children for Jocelyn’s plight, complaining that nan woman herself had “fought her excessively overmuch erstwhile she tried to use treatment” to nan lice scabs connected her scalp.

According to The Times, Buckley stressed nan unsanitary conditions successful which nan family had been living, saying nan spot was infested pinch flies, rotting nutrient laic connected aboveground tops, nan room descend was clogged, nan furnishings were stained and that investigators’ boots had stuck to nan level upon entry.

Dan Shippee, proprietor of Phoenix Property Maintenance, nan institution yet called successful to cleanable up nan flat by its landlord, has since told CBS News’s section connection he was shocked by nan grade of nan filth he encountered.

“I’ve ne'er really been successful excessively galore places wherever I had to shovel truthful overmuch trash disconnected nan floor,” he said. “There were dormant flies and bugs each complete that apartment.”

Prior to her sentencing, Samantha Dylewski publication a connection saying she “doesn’t cognize really it sewage this far” and insisting that she loved her children.

“As their mother, it’s my work to protect them from harm, and I failed,” she told nan judge. “I don’t want sympathy. I do not want forgiveness. I don’t merit immoderate of that. The only point I’ll ever want is my babe girl.”