(Photo by Jeffrey Hastings) Christian Cummings listens to the proceedings at his sentencing hearing last week in Hillsborough County Superior Court North. Cummings had been convicted of negligent homicide in the death of his 18-month-old daughter in 2019.

MANCHESTER — Four years after his 18-month-old daughter Kamryn died shortly after she was found unresponsive on the floor of their Weare home “covered in filth and lice,” Christian Cummings has been sentenced to 1½ to 5 years in State Prison.

Cummings, 23, of 364 Colby Road in Weare, a town of about 9,000 residents in western Hillsborough County, was convicted of negligent homicide, along with one misdemeanor count each of reckless conduct and endangering the welfare of a child, following a jury trial in November.

Superior Court Judge David Anderson sentenced Cummings to prison on the negligent homicide charge. He is credited with 144 days of pre-trial confinement, which brings his minimum sentence to just over 13 months.

On the two misdemeanor charges, Anderson handed down suspended jail sentences, which will be in effect for five years, beginning with his release from prison.

Anderson also recommended that Cummings undergo alcohol and drug treatment while in prison.

It was just over four years ago — on Valentines Day 2019 — that first responders called to Cummings’ residence found Cummings’s daughter, Kamryn, unconscious and unresponsive in the living room of the home, in conditions that authorities described as “filthy” and “infested with lice.”

Medical personnel determined Kamryn was suffering from anemia and malnutrition. An autopsy report ruled she died of an untreated urinary tract infection.

Meanwhile, Kamryn’s mother, Mikayla Cochran, 23, of High Rock Road in Weare, is facing numerous charges in connection with Kamryn’s death, according to grand jury indictments and the case summary in Cochran’s court file.

Like Cummings’s case, Cochran’s case was also on the trial track during late 2022 and early this year, but a series of cancellations and continuances have pushed proceedings forward.

Cochran’s court file currently lists nine charges against her, to include two counts each of negligent homicide, simple assault and reckless conduct, along with three counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Whether Cochran is currently incarcerated or out on bail isn’t known.

The most recent entry in her case summary shows that jury selection had been scheduled for March 27, but that was cancelled, with no further entries.

The series of cancelled or continued proceedings could indicate the parties are working on a plea agreement. It’s also possible the number of charges Cochran faces may change ahead of either a plea agreement or a trial.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.