Florida day care worker sentenced to 11 months in death of toddler who was left in hot van

A day care employee who had a part in leaving a toddler in a hot van last summer was sentenced Friday.

Louvenia Johnson, 29, pleaded no contest in June to aggravated manslaughter of a child by culpable negligence, only days before her co-defendant, Cornel McGee, went to trial and was acquitted.

Judge Joel Boles sentenced Johnson on Friday to 11 months in jail, followed by 10 years of probation, a departure from the recommended minimum sentence of 13 years in prison.

The two defendants — McGee, who was a driver at In His Arms Christian Academy in Pensacola, and Johnson, a teacher at the day care — left 3-year-old Jai’Nier Barnes in the day care center’s van the morning of Aug. 18.

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