MOBILE, Ala. (AP) – A former daycare employee has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was left in a hot daycare van in south Alabama.
Valarie Patterson was given the sentence – the maximum penalty for manslaughter in Alabama – on Thursday, WKRG-TV reported.
Patterson was an employee of Community Nursery and Preschool Academy in Mobile in 2017. Kamden Johnson had fallen asleep on the daycare van and died of heat exposure.