, STAFF WRITER
HILLSBOROUGH - Jamie Lee Wilson pleaded guilty today in the December 2005 scalding
death of her two-year-old goddaughter, whom Wilson was babysitting. Wilson, 23, will serve 31 to 40 years in state prison on charges of
second-degree murder, child abuse, inflicting serious injury and
first-degree kidnapping. More than 20 people close to Briana Faucette's family sat in an Orange County
courtroom this afternoon, some dabbing at tears and holding back sobs. Wilson had prepared to make a statement and then was not able to
deliver it. She asked an assistant public defender to speak for
her. "If I had a chance to let her live and me die, I would do it in a
second," Wilson said in the statement. "I was the one who was supposed
to protect her." Authorities revealed today that Wilson had been angry when the child
woke up crying after having vomited and soiled herself. Wilson submerged her in a tub of water that may have been as hot as 140
degrees. Briana Faucette suffered "full-thickness" burns on most of her body
from the waist down when she was held in scalding water, an autopsy in
the child's death said.
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