Carroll Street woman to be sentenced in April on child-endangering charge

Carroll Street woman to be sentenced in April on child-endangering charge

YOUNGSTOWN — Angela M. Spinelli, 20, of Carroll Street, pleaded no contest to one count of child endangering today in municipal court and was found guilty. A second child-endangering count was dismissed.

A background check will be done before her sentencing April 8. She faces up to six months in jail and $1,000 fine.

Police arrested Spinelli in December after her two toddlers were found outside playing with a dead cat. She told officers who responded to a neighbor's complaint that she thought her two boys, ages 3 and 2, were inside sleeping.

The neighbor told police that when she found the boys at 11:50 a.m. Dec. 22, the older one was not wearing a coat and was in wet pajama pants. The younger boy had no shoes on and his diaper was full of urine and feces.

The neighbor took the boys to her home and washed their faces and hands and fed them, police said.