Salvatore “Sam” Anello pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the tragic death of his 18-month-old granddaughter, who, in July 2019, fell from a cruise ship window Anello believed was closed.
“I was placed in charge of keeping my beautiful granddaughter safe and I failed. It will always be a constant nightmare every day and every night for the rest of my life,” said Anello, of Valparaiso, Indiana, in a February statement after he decided to take a plea deal. “I took a plea deal today to try to help end part of this nightmare for my family, if possible. The support they continue to give me has been beyond overwhelming and I can’t tell you how grateful I am for them.
"This decision was an incredibly difficult one for Sam and the family, but because the plea agreement includes no jail time and no admission of facts, it was decided the plea deal is in the best interests of the family so that they can close this horrible chapter and turn their focus to mourning Chloe," said the family's attorney, Michael Winkleman.“I wasn’t drinking and I wasn’t dangling her out of a window,” he said in a statement.
The Freedom of the Seas cruise ship docked in Bayonne, N.J., May 11, 2006. On Feb. 24, 2020, Salvatore "Sam" Anello, an Indiana man who was holding his granddaughter before she fell from an open window of the cruise ship and plunged to her death in July 2019 in Puerto Rico, agreed to plead guilty in her death, explaining that he was doing so "to try to help end part of this nightmare for my family.
My deepest sympathies for this guy and his family. This is when the justice system goes too far. Some tragedies are not a crime.
Trump knew back in Feb how contagious COVID was, he downplayed it. That is negligent homicide. Hosting events and rallies without masks on, that is negligent homicide. Trump is guilty of killing 200k Americans and the numbers are still growing.
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SAD
That family has been thru enough already.
This is so sad Now if it happened in Phila the grandfather would have been fine No one sees anything here.People dont stay in jail in phila with Krasner and Kenny on the job. Let him go
Geez! Glad he’s not my grandpa
Good try tho gramps. Had it not been for CCTV
This is an incredibly sad story. This man will live with that guilt for the rest of his life. Just sad, sad.
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