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31st January 2015
03:11pm GMT

The court heard how Jackson had bought marijuana from a dealer and then returned home to smoke it, forgetting to take Kadillak with him.
When the teaching assistant realised his mistake, he rushed back to the car to find the baby dead.
He had been fostering the child since she was two weeks old.
Pleading with the judge not to be jailed, Jackson told the judge:
“Your honour, I’m a broken man, pleading here for my life.
“I’m not a monster.”
Jackson was sentenced to jail for just under three years, with the judge ruling that although it may not have been intentional, the teaching assistant had abandoned Kadillak.
Jackson and his partner Schroeder had five other children in their care at the time of the incident.
The couple were foster parents to three other children ages 3, 5 and 18, and two adopted children ages 5 and 7.
According to the CBS News, the two younger foster children were visiting relatives at the time the 10-month-old died.Explore more on these topics: