A 36-year-old mother received a 12-month community custody sentence for second-degree manslaughter that caused the death of her 3-year-old daughter in 2022 when she left fentanyl out in her Kent apartment that the girl ingested.
King County Superior Court Judge Matthew Lapin agreed with the defense attorney’s recommendation of community custody, rather than the 27-month prison sentence recommended by the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, according to court documents.
Carolyn D. Franklin pleaded guilty in June after prosecutors reduced the original charge of first-degree manslaughter and dropped a reckless endangerment charge. Lapin also dismissed a domestic violence charge during an Aug. 15 sentencing hearing at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent…