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Day Care Owner Pleads Guilty to Hanging Toddler
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ A Minneapolis day care owner accused of trying to kill a toddler in her home has pleaded guilty to criminal charges.
Forty-three-year-old Nataliia Karia entered the plea to attempted murder and third-degree assault. She also pleaded guilty to criminal vehicular operation of a vehicle for hitting a pedestrian, a bicyclist and another driver as she fled from her home in a minivan.
The criminal complaint says a father was dropping off his son at the home in November 2016 when Karia led him toward the basement, where he saw the toddler hanging from a noose. He released the child and fled with him. The 16-month-old boy survived.
Reports say Karia told a judge Thursday she had been struggling with mental health issues in the weeks before the incident.
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