A babysitter in Virginia is going to jail after a court viewed hours of disturbing footage of her starving, assaulting, and neglecting a young girl for months.
Carly Webb, 21, was initially sentenced to nine years in prison at the Bedford Circuit Court on Friday, but the judge ultimately reduced her sentence to only 12 months.
Webb was found guilty on all 17 child abuse charges related to her care of a young girl between October 2023 and January 2024, even though she admitted to only five charges.
The toddler’s mother revealed in court that her daughter was less than two years old when she experienced the wretched abuse in their own home.
Webb was sentenced to five years for felony child abuse and four years for multiple misdemeanors.
However, Judge James Updike Jr. suspended eight years of her punishment and dismissed her additional charges, leaving Webb to serve just 12 months in jail with three years of probation.
Despite the light sentencing, Updike shamed Webb for ‘a pattern of cruelty and neglect,’ according to WDBJ.
The judge added that it was the first time he had ever seen a child abuse case with so much video evidence.
Carly Webb, 21, is expected to report to jail in less than a week to serve 12 months in jail after being found guilty on 17 charges related to child abuse of a 2 year old she was babysitting
Webb, was initially sentenced to nine years in prison at the Bedford Circuit Court on Friday and shocked a judge for the amount of video evidence available
Cameras caught Webb neglecting the toddler, leaving her without food or water and discarding prepared meals, according to Law & Crime.
The babysitter was also seen eating in front of the hungry little girl and, at one point, left the toddler in her crib for 20 hours without food or water.
On other occasions, Webb was captured beating, cursing, and screaming in the face of the child she was supposed to be caring for, according to the outlet.
The abuse did not end there, as she was also seen pretending to shoot the little girl with a gun and shutting her inside a box.
Webb cried in court as she admitted to the girl’s parents that she fell short as a caretaker at the before she was given her sentence.
‘I totally failed her in that responsibility,’ said the babysitter. ‘It was terrible. I was totally in the wrong.’
She added how she understands the parents’ outrage and doesn’t deserve forgiveness.
Chris Kowalczuk, Webb’s attorney, was pleased with the sentencing but disapproved of how his client was described in court.
Chris Kowalczuk, Webb’s attorney, was pleased that his client only received a year of jail time in addition to three year of probation serve. He added that Webb was ‘not a monster’
Prosecutor Stacey Stickney did not sugarcoat the Webbs’ actions, noting how she ‘put the baby through hell day after day, week after week, month after month.’ However, she was also pleased with Webb having to serve a year in jail
‘She is not a monster,’ said the lawyer, defending the 21-year-old as a self-absorbed teenager who did not want to be a babysitter at the time, according to Law & Crime.
However, Prosecutor Stacey Stickney did not sugarcoat the Webbs’ actions, noting how she ‘put the baby through hell day after day, week after week, month after month.’
It was also revealed throughout the court case that Webb hid the abuse from the family, which allowed it to continue for so long.
‘We have all left the courtroom feeling very pleased with the judge’s ruling and the sentence that he handed down this afternoon to the defendant in this case,’ Stickney told WSET.
‘From the very beginning, the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office prosecuted this case very aggressively with both misdemeanor and felony charges.’
A similar satisfied sentiment was echoed by Kowalczuk: ‘A sentence of 12 months is a sentence I think is fair and reasonable, and I was very appreciative of that on behalf of my client.’
The babysitter will report to jail in less than a week, and in order to keep her eight-year suspension, she must maintain good behavior for nine years.