Babysitter to serve 14 years for pushing toddler in the face, causing him to fall and die

   29-year-old Kinjal Patel   (C)NewHavenPoliceDept.

Kinjal Patel, 29 was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter for the death of 19 months old Athiyan Sivakumar, and would be serving 14years in prison.
Reporting on New Haven Register, the office of the chief state medical examiner ruled the child’s death a homicide and that the cause of death was blunt-force trauma with multiple sites of impact.
Apparently, Patel told police several versions of what had occurred before ultimately stating that after the toddler gave Patel a hard time about eating rice and spat water in her face, Patel picked up the boy and slammed his feet onto the kitchen floor about three times, then shook his head back and forth. The warrant quoted her saying she then pushed the boy in the face and he fell backward, hitting his head. Athiyan was reported to have died at the Yale-New Haven Hospital as a result of the injury he sustained.
Patel entered a plea under the Alford Doctrine. That means she does not agree with the state's case, but concedes there is enough evidence to secure her conviction. She will serve 14 years in prison.