KINGSTON, Jamaica — Dental assistant Kayodi Satchell has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of eight-year-old Danielle Rowe. She will be eligible for parole after serving 27 years and four months.

The decision was handed down by Supreme Court Judge Justice Carolyn Tie-Powell on Friday.

Satchell was also sentenced to six years and three months for child stealing. The sentences are to run concurrently.

During the sentencing, Justice Tie-Powell described what Satchell did to Danielle as “sheer evil” and said that with Danielle’s death, her family has been deprived of so much, noting Danielle’s brother who asks for her everyday and her sister who is always angry and wants to die.

Satchell, by her own admission, snatched Rowe from Braeton Primary and Infant School in Portmore, Catherine on June 8, 2023 and took her to a location in St Andrew where she fed her a meal before slashing her throat. The mortally wounded child was found by a member of the Jamaica Defence Force on Roosevelt Avenue in St Andrew. She succumbed to her injuries in hospital two days later on June 10.

In September this year Satchell pleaded guilty to the acts which caused widespread horror and outrage. She claimed she was driven to commit the crime out of “bitterness and frustration” at being jilted by the child’s father who she said infected her with HIV.

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