BOSTON – A Massachusetts mother has been sentenced after pleading guilty in the death of one of her children.
27-year-old Jennifer Prudencio of Chelsea was previously charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment of a child. Police were called to Prudencio’s Spencer Avenue apartment in Chelsea on April 7th, 2024, where they found her three-year-old son, Yael Guardado-Prudencio, unresponsive.
According to NECN, prosecutors stated that Prudencio left the 3-year-old, who was pale and vomiting, in the care of her 7 and 8-year-old children while she went out to a bar in Revere, drank for a few hours, then slept at her boyfriend’s home in Somerville. The 8-year-old texted his mother and sent a video with concern for his 3-year-old brother’s well-being…