A Louisiana mother has pleaded guilty following the fatal beating of her 3-year-old daughter while left with a group of unsupervised children.
Dineshia Yates and her friend, Terica Scott, both 26-years-old, left eight children alone at Scott’s Baton Rouge home to gamble at a casino the night that Yates’ daughter, Blessing Buckles, was fatally beaten by two older children, according to arrest records obtained by WAFB .
While the women were gone, a juvenile called 911 around 3:45 am to report that Buckles, Yates’ daughter, was not breathing. Buckles was taken to the hospital where she was resuscitated and treated for bruises and abrasions consistent with blunt for trauma. She died of a brain bleed on February 14, 2024…