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Dec 10, 2007 11:31 am US/Central

Local Daycare Owner Convicted In Boy's Death

DALLAS (AP) ― A former Dallas day-care center owner has been sentenced to two years in prison, hours after her conviction of charges arising from the heat-related death of a 4-year-old boy left in a van on a searing July afternoon.

A Dallas County jury returned the sentence Monday afternoon for Blynithia Washington, 42. Jurors had found her guilty Monday morning of reckless injury to a child and evidence tampering in the death of Jacob Fox in 2006.

Police say Fox died of heat stroke after he was left in a day care van, then his body was removed from the van and placed in a Balch Springs park.

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