A grandfather accused in the fatal
fall of his young granddaughter from an 11th-story window of a cruise ship
docked in Puerto Rico last year has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide.
Salvatore Anello of Valparaiso,
Indiana, earlier said he would drop a not-guilty plea to help end what he
called “this nightmare"
for his family.
Eighteen-month-old Chloe Wiegand
slipped from his grasp and fell about 150 feet from an open window of Royal
Caribbean Cruises’
Freedom of the Seas ship in July 2019.
Defense attorney Michael Winkleman
said in a statement that Anello will not face any jail time and that he will
serve probation in Indiana.
AP wire services helped contribute to this report.