'Put the baby through hell': Babysitter put toddler in box, denied her food and water, pretended to shoot her with toy gun, mocked her for crying, and called her 'an effing B'

A Virginia pistillate volition walk clip down bars implicit the months-long maltreatment of a toddler miss she was babysitting for a household who trusted her wholly and considered her a adjacent friend.

In October 2025, 21-year-old Carly Rae Webb, successful an antithetic crook of events, pleaded blameworthy to 5 retired of 17 charges against her portion the tribunal additionally recovered her blameworthy connected the remaining 12 charges. But astir of those convictions were efficaciously successful sanction only.

On Friday, she was sentenced by Bedford Circuit Court Judge James Updike Jr. to 1 twelvemonth successful jailhouse followed by 3 years of probation for her culpability connected a lone felony number of child abuse and 5 misdemeanor counts of assault. Formally, she was sentenced to 5 years connected the felony number and a combined 4 years connected the misdemeanor counts – but the justice assessed the sentences to tally concurrently, oregon astatine the aforesaid time. And each but 1 twelvemonth was suspended.

The tribunal declined to condemnation her connected the remaining charges and yet decided to formally disregard them this week.

Still, the justice antecedently excoriated the suspect for "a signifier of cruelty and neglect," according to a courtroom study by Roanoke-based CBS affiliate WDBJ. Updike said helium had never, successful 47 years connected the bench, seen a kid maltreatment lawsuit with truthful overmuch damning video evidence.

"When I saw the videos, I couldn't judge it," the child's begetter said portion testifying during the trial. "Thank God we had the cameras."

Surveillance footage showed the kid being kept successful a crib for up to 9 hours – without nutrient oregon water. In immoderate instances, Webb tin beryllium seen throwing distant the nutrient and portion that the child's parent prepared for her. Prosecutors said the kid would sometimes spell without sustenance for upwards of 21 hours connected end.

In astatine slightest 1 instance, the kid was enactment to furniture astatine 8 p.m. and – each portion nether Webb's attraction – did not person nutrient oregon portion until 4 p.m. the adjacent time erstwhile the parents returned location from work.

The maltreatment was sometimes much direct.

While Webb is besides seen eating successful beforehand of the starved child, different times the pistillate is seen kicking, hitting, and taunting her by calling her "an effing B," screaming successful her face, placing her successful a box, and pretending to sprout her with a artifact weapon portion mocking her arsenic the small miss cries, according to WDBJ and The News & Advance.

Before the justice handed down the sentence, Webb addressed the tribunal successful an allocution and cried, saying she is ashamed of what she did and that she understands the parents' rage toward her.

"I wholly failed her successful that responsibility," the suspect said of her duties arsenic a babysitter. "It was terrible. I was wholly successful the wrong."

The kid was betwixt 19 months and astir 2 years old, her parent testified, erstwhile she suffered the maltreatment meted retired by the "monster."

"My babe miss was truthful overmuch stronger than you," the girl's parent said, addressing Webb directly.

The defendant's lawyer took contented with immoderate of the connection utilized during the proceeding erstwhile addressing the court.

"She is not a monster," Chris Kowalzcuk said – explaining that his lawsuit was a self-absorbed teen who did not privation to beryllium a babysitter astatine the time. "She is simply a quality being."

Bedford County Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Stacey Stickney enactment a constituent connected the abuse, saying Webb "put the babe done hellhole time aft day, week aft week, period aft month."

The child's begetter echoed that assessment. He said helium often thinks of Webb, the betrayal of spot "and the hellhole you enactment america through," adding that "no genitor should ever person to spot the things I saw."

During the hearing, it was besides noted that Webb tricked the household and covered up her tracks truthful arsenic to get distant with the maltreatment for rather a agelong time. The timeline was a sticking constituent for the court.

"That is wherever I find the aggravation successful this case," Updike said, citing the duration of the maltreatment for wherefore helium went beyond the sentencing guidelines – which lone called for betwixt 1 time and six months successful jail. Technically, she faces 10 years down bars erstwhile each is said and done. The suspension of the sentence, however, mostly renders specified considerations moot.

Under the presumption of her sentence, Webb indispensable support bully behaviour for 9 years for her condemnation to stay suspended. She is besides prohibited from having immoderate interaction with the victim, the family, and cannot service successful immoderate relation arsenic a caretaker for a minor.

"We person each near the courtroom feeling precise pleased with the judge's ruling and the condemnation that helium handed down this day to the suspect successful this case," Stickney told Bluefield, West Virginia-based NBC and The CW affiliate WVVA. "From the precise beginning, the Commonwealth's Attorney's bureau prosecuted this lawsuit precise aggressively with some misdemeanor and felony charges."