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Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Yahoo
Babysitter charged with manslaughter after child left in SUV on Martha's Vineyard dies
A Cape Cod woman is now charged with manslaughter after a toddler's death on Wednesday, nearly one week after the child she was babysitting was found unresponsive in her SUV. Prosecutors said the boy was left unattended in the vehicle for hours. Aimee Cotton, 41, of Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, was arraigned on the manslaughter charge in the Edgartown District Court on Thursday, Cape and Islands District Attorney Robert Galibois said in a statement shortly before 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Cotton was held on $21,000 bail with GPS. Prosecutors had asked that Cotton be held on $50,000 bail. She is due back in Edgartown District Court on April 3 for a probable cause hearing. The charges against Cotton were upgraded after the two-year-old victim died of his injuries at Mass General Hospital on Wednesday, six days after being found unresponsive and buckled in a car seat in the SUV, Galibois said. 'District Attorney Galibois's thoughts are with the family and loved ones of the young toddler during this incredibly difficult time,' Galibois' statement said. On Thursday, March 13, at approximately 1:16 p.m., the Dukes County Regional Emergency Communications Center received a 911 call from Cotton, who stated that a child she is babysitting was not breathing and turning blue, Galibois said. Cotton initially reported that she had left the boy in her car briefly, which she estimated to be 15 minutes, and returned to find him unresponsive in a car seat, according to the police report. She later admitted to investigators that she left the boy, and another child, unsupervised in her vehicle for approximately three hours, after investigators reviewed Nest video footage, police stated in their report. 'Cotton stated that for the hours JV-1 and JV-2 were secured, strapped and fastened in their car seats, in her vehicle, she was in her house cooking bacon in the oven, conducting personal hygiene, prepared her son's hockey bags and conducted several household chores,' police wrote in their report. When first responders arrived to Cotton's home in Oak Bluffs following her 911 call, they found Cotton preforming CPR on the young toddler in the second-row passenger seat area of a 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe, according to the police report. Oak Bluffs Police and paramedics took over emergency lifesaving efforts. The boy was taken to Martha's Vineyard Hospital and then flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in critical condition, Galibois said. On March 14, Cotton was arraigned in Edgartown District Court on the charges of assault and battery on a child with injury and reckless endangerment of a child. At that arraignment, Cotton was held on $2,800 bail with conditions of release. Prosecutors had requested $10,000 bail. Oak Bluffs Police and the State Police Detective Unit assigned to Galibois's office are investigating. This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
Boston Globe
06-02-2025
- Boston Globe
White teenager who pleaded guilty to trying to drown Black teen sentenced to probation
He was also ordered to write a letter of apology to the teenager he admitted to attacking, perform 720 hours of community service, and complete educational programming selected by the court's probation department, Galibois said by email. Advertisement The sentence was a joint recommendation by prosecutors and defense attorney Kevin J. Reddington, Galibois said. 'The victim — and his mother — were advised of the joint recommendation and were in agreement with it,' Galibois said. Gailbois said that during the sentencing hearing, the judge made the 'observation that politics did not play a role in this case. Additionally, we agree with the Court's determination that this matter was not horseplay but a criminal act.' Reddington was in court on another case and was not immediately available for comment Thursday. While most juvenile defendants aren't publicly named, prosecutors charged Sheeran as a youthful offender, meaning the proceedings are public and similar to the adult court system. The charges stemmed from a July 19, 2023, incident at Goose Pond, involving Sheeran, then 14, another boy, and the Black teenager. Authorities did not release the names and ages of the two other boys. The Black teenager told police that a friend had invited him to the pond. He arrived on a bicycle, which he told Sheeran and the other boy not to touch because he had borrowed it from his older brother. They began throwing rocks at him, police said. The Black teenager said he put on a lifejacket because he cannot swim and went into the water as Sheeran continued to throw stones at him, threatened to beat him up, and called him a racial slur, police said. Advertisement A few minutes later, Sheeran swam to the Black teenager and pulled him underwater by his lifejacket, forcing him under the surface four to five times, police said. The Black teenager said he yelled at Sheeran to stop because he couldn't breathe and tried to get away from him, while the other boy laughed and called him George Floyd, police said. The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May 2020 The Black teenager said Sheeran left him alone for about 15 minutes before he returned on a raft with the other boy. Sheeran then swam beneath the Black teenager and grabbed his feet as the other boy laughed from the raft, police said. The Black teenager yelled for help and a bystander on the beach swam out to him and yelled for Sheeran to stop, which he did, police said. Once he was back on shore, the Black teenager packed up his belongings and left. The attack was reported to police two days later. Sheeran's sentence was Information from earlier Globe reporting was used in this account. John R. Ellement can be reached at
