MOBILE, Ala. ( WKRG ) — A Mobile woman who pleaded guilty to reckless manslaughter has been sentenced, according to the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office.
Yolanda Denise Coale, 55, of Mobile, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the February 2022 death of a 4-year-old child .
The boy who died was Coale’s nephew, and she was his caregiver. He was pronounced dead on the scene when police and Mobile Fire-Rescue crews arrived.
Police said the boy’s body showed signs he suffered from child abuse, with cuts all over his body and old scars on his back.
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Coale was seen hitting the boy with a broom. One child said she stripped the boy naked and hit him with a diamond-studded belt.
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