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Grandfather pleads guilty in cruise ship death of his 18-month-old granddaughter
Chloe Wiegand SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A grandfather accused in the fatal fall of his young granddaughter from an 11th-story window of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico last year pleaded guilty Thursday to negligent homicide.Salvatore “Sam” Anello of Valparaiso, Indiana, said earlier this year that he would drop a not-guilty plea to help end what he called “this nightmare” for his family. Eighteen-month-old Chloe Wiegand slipped from his grasp and fell about 150 feet from an open window of Royal Caribbean Cruises’ Freedom of the Seas ship in July 2019.Puerto Rico prosecutor Laura Hernández said Anello would be sentenced Dec.