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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Isabel Keane

Babysitter jailed after ‘she left toddler without food or water for 21 hours until parents returned home’

A Virginia babysitter was sentenced to a year in jail after a judge found she had neglected and abused a toddler in her care for several months - (Blue Ridge Regional Jail)

A babysitter will spend a year in jail after abusing a toddler in her care by leaving her without food or water for 21 hours at a time — and even pretending to shoot the hunger-stricken child with a toy gun when she would cry.

Carly Webb, 21, was sentenced to a year behind bars on Friday after a judge found she had neglected and physically abused the child of a family friend whom she watched at their Bedford, Virginia, home between October 2023 and January 2024, WDBJ 7 reported.

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