Mother charged with 8-year-old daughter’s death after instructing her to crawl under a train

FRESNO, CA – Joy Frances Collins, a California mother, has been sentenced to six years in prison following the tragic death of her eight-year-old daughter, Joyanna Harris, in December 2018. Collins was found guilty of child abuse and endangerment after she instructed her children to crawl under an idling cargo train to make it in time for a bus on the other side of the tracks. Unfortunately, when the train began to move, young Joyanna …

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