Gardipee toddler-death sentencing Aug. 21

The second of two defendants charged in the death of an 11-month-old boy in their care pleaded guilty in federal District Court in Great Falls Monday to the lesser of two charges in the indictment, and the judge set her sentencing hearing for Aug. 21.

Cecilia Rose Gardipee pleaded guilty to shaking Kaidynce Small for about 90 seconds in the early morning of Oct. 21. He died that morning.

Under the plea agreement, the prosecution will drop the first charge against Gardipee, second-degree murder.

Her boyfriend, Garret “Kirby” LaFromboise, who fathered the child with another woman while...