Couple Get 5-Year Terms in Drowning of Toddler ; 'Welfare Agencies' Bear Judge's Ire at Sentencing

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Calling welfare agencies "worthless toy poodles" instead of watchdogs, a judge on Friday sentenced a Wyckoff couple to five years in prison for leaving their toddler unattended in a bathtub.

Jack and Megan Manookian admitted in January that their 19-month- old son, Christian, drowned after they left him alone with his 5- year-old sister in May 2003. In exchange for their five-year sentences, the couple pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

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Couple Get 5-Year Terms in Drowning of Toddler ; 'Welfare Agencies' Bear Judge's Ire at Sentencing

Christian Manookian was born in 2001, two days after another of the couple's children, Jack, was strangled in the cords of window blinds...

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