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At 4 p.m. that warm Sunday afternoon in late January, Broshears dropped his 2-year-old daughter off in Spring Hill with her mother, Tiffany Lynn Mitchell. The 26-year-old, said then-boyfriend Joe Albarella, had recently gotten an oxycodone dose from a family member. She didn't have a prescription for the pill. Far from being an addict or a hard partier, Albarella said, Mitchell didn't want to take the entire tablet. She tried to cut it in half, but couldn't. So, frustrated, she left the oxycodone on her nightstand and stepped into the shower.
"There is absolutely nothing I can do to you today that would punish you any worse than you very likely punish yourself," Tatti told Mitchell, "but your daughter's life came to an end because of a decision you made for yourself, not her."
A moment later at Monday's hearing, Tatti sentenced Mitchell to 30 months in state prison...
The punishment was far less than the 13 years Tatti could have given Mitchell, who pleaded guilty last month to aggravated manslaughter of a child.