….and if one commenter to this story is correct, just like in Buffalo, social services or police apparently did not respond to warning signs that had been evident for some time.  Could fear of being called racists or Islamophobes have held them back?

Here is the short news story from CBS Minnesota.   As reader Cliff suggests, there must be more to this for her to have gotten ten years for an accident.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 23-year-old Minneapolis woman was sentenced Friday to more than 10 years in prison for the second-degree murder of her daughter.

Deqa Mohamed Yusuf pleaded guilty to the murder charge in November and will spend 128 months in prison for the death of her 2-year-old daughter.

According to the criminal complaint, just before midnight on May 31, police were sent to Yusuf’s apartment. She was screaming that her daughter was dead, as Yusuf had left her daughter in a nearly full tub while she grabbed something from another room.

Police say her blood alcohol level was more than .20 at the hospital later on that night, and her daughter was pronounced dead on June 17 from the May 31 incident.

There had reportedly been efforts through child protection by friends and relatives to help Yusuf overcome her alcoholism and be a better parent.

A commenter (Rufftouch) to the CBS story doesn’t pull any punches:

Yes, addiction is a disease. If you read past news article about what happened the day of the incident. You would find out everyone failed to notify the police when this lady was getting drunk with the kids at home and calling her mother on the phone and threatening suicide. This is what happens when we delay help but now she will pay the price twice, prison and loss of a child. Stupid father, where were you when your baby’s mother is getting drunk everyday? They should have sterile him for 10 years too!

For new readers, here are a few posts that are always near the top of our most read posts list.  Why so many Somalis in Minneapolis?  And then this one, How did we get so many Somalis, from way back in 2008.  We are still resettling thousands of Somalis to the US every year.  Minneapolis has the largest concentration of them followed by Columbus, Ohio which recently was the site of Somalis gone wild trying to get on a waiting list for subsidized housing, here.