Woman sentenced in baby’s death

27-year-old who beat nephew and cracked his skull gets 12 years

The baby died a week before his first birthday, and an autopsy found the cause was a fractured skull caused by blunt-force trauma to the head.

But Kalobe Williams didn’t die from a car accident, or a terrible fall. His aunt, Adeline Patrice Edwards, admitted to beating the Boynton Beach boy while he was in her care.

Days before her murder trial, the 27-year-old woman pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Kalobe’s death on Dec. 24, 2016.

Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Scher sentenced Edwards to 12 years in state prison for her manslaughter-of-a-child conviction. She received credit for spending the last two years and four months in custody, court records show.

Edwards had been murder and child abuse charges, plea agreement.

The deal worked out by the prosecutor and Edwards’ lawyer also requires three years of probation after she completes her prison term. During probation, she is forbidden from being alone with any child under 10 years of age.

According to a Boynton Beach Police spokeswoman, Edwards initially told investigators that the child fell off a couch, before she confessed to hitting the boy repeatedly.

A medical examiner’s report listed the cause of death as homicide, noting a cracked skull and lump on the forehead.

The woman called 911 to report that Kalobe was unresponsive after falling off an L-shaped couch where he had been sleeping with siblings.

Edwards shared a home with the boy’s mother, Latonya Edwards, and the boy’s uncle, police said.

According to a state Department of Children and Families report on the case, the mom had left the house, and her children were being watched by the aunt and uncle. facing firstdegree aggravated before the