Woman 'squeezed' baby into swaddle, placed face down on bed
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Teresa Biswanath (Washington County District Attorney’s Office).

An unlicensed “in-home” day care worker in Oregon is heading to prison for killing an 11-month-old baby she was supposed to be watching. Prosecutors said she “squeezed the victim into a swaddle much too small for his size” and then placed him facedown on a bed with a pacifier in his mouth, leading to his death.

Teresa Biswanath, of Washington County, was sentenced to two years in prison and three years of post-release supervision for criminally negligent homicide, the Washington County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release. She is prohibited from ever operating a licensed child care center again and was ordered to have no contact with the victim’s family, the release says.

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Jurors found Biswanath guilty on April 30 for the child’s 2022 death. She was running an “unlicensed in-home daycare” at the time and told police she followed similar policies as ones from her previous place of employment, a “well-known childcare center” in the area that “precluded the practice of infant swaddling,” according to the DA’s office.

“On the day of the child’s death, the defendant was caring for five children, including the victim,” the office says in its release. “During nap time, the defendant squeezed the victim into a swaddle much too small for his size, one designed for newborns less than three months old who could not roll over or crawl as he could. She used straps to bind the child’s arms and put a pacifier with a 6-inch stuffed animal attached into his mouth.”

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