SUNBURY — A Northumberland County woman has been sentenced to state prison in the death of a 1-year-old girl she was watching.

Amanda Lynn Walton, 42, of Sunbury, who pleaded guilty in August to a charge of involuntary manslaughter, was sentenced Wednesday in county court to 1 to 5 years.

Walton told investigators she awoke the morning of July 12, 2024, to find the toddler to whom she was distantly related next to her on the couch. Her lips were blue, so she called 911, she said.

The evening before, she took her prescribed suboxone, which makes her drowsy, and she fell asleep on a living room couch by the girl, Walton said.

The cause of the toddler’s death remains undetermined, assistant public defender David Albertson said.

There were seven children in the residence, ranging in age f

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