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Montreal babysitter sentenced for leaving toddler unattended in apartment fire

Josee Milot pleaded guilty to several charges related to a Hochelaga-Maisonneuve apartment fire in August 2017. Facebook

A Montreal woman who left a toddler unattended in an apartment where a fire broke out in August 2017, has pleaded guilty to several charges.

The charges include unlawfully abandoning a child, criminal negligence causing a fire and obstructing police work.

Josee Milot, 50, was sentenced on Monday to 10-and-a-half months behind bars, but her sentence is considered served because she has been detained since last August.

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Milot was babysitting the infant girl when the stove caught fire. Milot was not in the apartment at the time of the kitchen fire.

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The toddler, as well as the four officers who saved her, all suffered from smoke inhalation but survived.

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