I don’t get it. This woman is presumably damned sorry that her stupidity got her daughter killed. It’s a tragedy she’ll have to live with for the rest of her life, so WTF is gained by imprisoning her for 25 years? Seems unlikely that she’s potentially a repeat offender, so nobody is safer because Mariann Belair is in prison. This is just jackass sentencing, the very definition of cruel and unusual. Giver her probation and let her get on with her ruined life.
How about the neighboring kids, everyone she comes close to, or anyone who enters the house? How about the UPS guy? They’ll all be safer. If you can’t even keep a loaded gun away from a toddler, you’re most likely also not being responsible with a loaded gun around anyone else.
Heck, at three years old, my kids understood there were some things they were not allowed to touch. What happened with parenting?