A Baton Rouge woman whose 3-year-old daughter was beaten to death after she left the girl at home unsupervised with other children was sent to prison for 18 months after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
Dineshia Denise Yates, 27, accepted the best-interest guilty pleas during an April 10 hearing inside the 19th Judicial District Courthouse. She confessed to manslaughter and cruelty to juveniles in the February 2024 death of her daughter, Blessing Buckles.
District Judge Collette Greggs handed down a 15-year sentence for the manslaughter conviction but suspended all but 18 months of it, 19th JDC court records show. The judge also sentenced Yates to 18 months on the juvenile cruelty charge as part of the plea deal and ran the two sentences together…