Sailor convicted in death of baby daughter

Sailor convicted in death of baby daughter
By Allison Batdorff, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, January 20, 2008

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — There were no winners in the courtroom Friday, noted Prosecutor Cmdr. Dave Karpel.

There was a guilty verdict — Seaman Recruit Jonathan Delgado was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his 2-month-old daughter, Kylie.

And there was a sentence — the Misawa sailor was given 45 months confinement and a dishonorable discharge.

But “everybody loses,” Karpel said Friday, adding “there is nothing but tragedy inside this courtroom” as no one will get to know the baby in the pink “one-sie” beyond her short 66 days on earth.

Kylie’s death was the focus of a two-week court-martial at Yokosuka Naval Base that ended Friday with the jury’s decision that Delgado killed his daughter with “culpable negligence” by shaking her to death July 15, 2006, in the Misawa Air Base apartment he shared with his active-duty wife. Both sailors flew with Kylie to the neonatal intensive care unit on Okinawa where the baby was declared brain dead and life-support was withdrawn July 17, 2006.


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