Starved Pa. teen’s dad awaits fate for abandonment

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The father of a disabled Philadelphia girl convicted of child endangerment for abandoning her with her unfit mother before she died is set for sentencing Tuesday.

Daniel Kelly will 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.