A second Wisconsin woman linked to the shooting of a 9-year-old girl will avoid prison time.
Vanta’jah Westmoreland, 24, pleaded guilty to three counts of being party to a crime of child neglect and was sentenced to two years of probation on Friday. The charges were brought against Westmoreland in connection with the shooting of a 9-year-old girl, who was with three other children at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, apartment on Nov. 8, 2024. According to a criminal complaint reviewed by Law&Crime, Westmoreland was the girlfriend of 29-year-old Nakia Piggee, who is the mother of the girl who was shot.
Police said the two adults left the 9-year-old, an 8-year-old, a 4-year-old, and a disabled 2-year-old by themselves for about 40 minutes to go grocery shopping…