Austintown mom sentenced to jail for toddler's bruises, fractures
An Austintown woman has been sentenced after pleading guilty to a child-endangering charge filed after doctors found broken bones and bruises on her two-year-old daughter.
Sierra Yakuvik, 22, appeared in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on Friday before Judge Anthony D'Apolito who sentenced her to six months in jail followed by four to six months in a halfway house. In addition, Yakuvik will be on probation for 5 years.
Yakuvik was arrested in July of last year after she took her toddler to UPMC Hospital in Pittsburgh.
According to a police report, hospital officials reported finding fractures and bruises from previous injuries, from which the child was still healing.
The injuries listed on the police report include right and left tibia fractures, left radius fracture, left femur fracture, right eyelid bruising, forehead bruising, bruising to the left side of the eye, upper and lower back bruising, lower leg bruising bruises to the inner and outer thigh, and right elbow bruise.
Yakuvik could have faced up to three years in prison.