Sentence for Dad of Starved Girl Pushed Back

Danieal Kelly’s father was supposed to be sentenced Tuesday for child endangerment and abandoning his disabled daughter who starved to death

The father of a disabled Philadelphia girl convicted of child endangerment for abandoning her with her unfit mother before she died was set for sentencing Tuesday.

A Philadelphia judge says "bureaucracy" has pushed the sentencing date back to Oct. 20.

Daniel Kelly is to be sentenced along with two contractors paid to oversee the city's neediest cases.

Prosecutors say they rarely visited the girl's chaotic home before Danieal Kelly died at age 14, weighing just 42 pounds.

The sentencings are expected to wrap up the federal and state investigations of the girl's 2006 neglect death. More than a dozen people have been convicted.

Her mother is serving a 20- to 40-year sentence for third-degree murder.

Forty-year-old Daniel Kelly faces up to seven years for the felony endangerment charge.

And contractor Mickal Kamuvaka faces up to 26 years for involuntary manslaughter and other charges.
 

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