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This undated file photo provided by the Deschutes County
Sheriff's office shows January Irene Neatherlin. Neatherlin,
accused of running an illegal day care in Bend, Ore., where she
would leave the children unattended so she could go tanning,
pleaded guilty Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, to 11 counts of first-
degree criminal mistreatment and a single count of third-degree
assault.

By Eder Campuzano ecampuzano@oregonian.com
The Oregonian/OregonLive

A Bend day care owner who had been accused of slipping children
melatonin so that she could hit the gym and go tanning was
sentenced to 21 years and four months in prison by a Deschutes
County judge Friday.

January Neatherlin, 32, had been running an illegal childcare
operation called Little Giggles for approximately four years and
pleaded guilty to 11 counts of first-degree criminal
mistreatment and one count of third-degree assault, according to
court records. She had also lied to parents about being a
registered nurse, even though she had no such qualifications.

Bend police, based on tips provided by a former boyfriend and a
former roommate, surveilled Neatherlin last March and saw her
leave the house twice while she was supposed to be watching
seven children.

She drove her kids to school on the first trip. On the second,
police found her at a local Tan Republic.

The children who had been left in her care during those
excursions had the sleep aid melatonin in their systems,
according to a sentencing memo.

Neatherlin had been telling parents they couldn't pick up or
drop off their kids between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Police checked
Cross Fit and Tan Republic records to find that's when she would
leave the house, hours she referred to as "nap time."

The Bend Bulletin also reports that a child in Neatherlin's care
was once sent to a Portland hospital with multiple head injuries
and that she admitted to overheating bottle of milk, giving a
young child burns.

Since her arrest last March, Neatherlin had approached other
inmates and asked them to claim they had worked for her. She
also wrote letters to former inmates asking for bail money and
promised to pay them from offshore accounts worth "a lot of
money," according to the sentencing memo.

Neatherlin's rap sheet dates back to 2007, when she was charged
with multiple instances of theft and identity theft. Court
documents filed by the state describe her as having an "on-
going, systematic scheme of doing what she wanted and getting
what she wanted, without any concern for the danger she was
placing others in."

Prosecutors originally angled for a 35-year sentence.

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest- news/index.ssf/2018/03/bend_woman_gets_21_years_for_c.html

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