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Sierra Day was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole after she and her boyfriend, Deonte Lewis, were convicted in the death of her four-year-old daughter, Aniya Day-Garrett, in Euclid, Ohio.

Aniya lived with Day and Lewis at the Cultural Gardens apartment complex. Day and Lewis had been dating since July 2017, and witnesses testified that Lewis lived in the apartment. Aniya's father was seeking custody. Day worked at a day care, Get Ready, Set, Grow, according to the appellate opinion, which does not give her job title. Day was 23 or 24 at the time of the death. The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's office listed Day as 24 and Lewis as 27 in its March 2019 release.

Euclid paramedics were called for an unresponsive child on March 11, 2018. They found Aniya under an air conditioning unit with a black eye, a cut above the eye, and bruises, cuts, and what appeared to be burns. She was severely thin, cold, and stiff, and was pronounced dead at the hospital. She weighed 26 pounds at autopsy. The medical examiner ruled the cause of death a cerebral infarction (stroke) due to blunt impact to the head with subdural hematoma, with malnutrition as a contributing cause, and ruled the death a homicide. The pathologist testified that the strokes occurred about two weeks to three months before death.

Child care workers testified that Aniya repeatedly arrived with injuries and said her mother hit her. The county children's services agency received referrals in February 2017 and December 2017. The December 2017 case was closed as unsubstantiated in January 2018. Aniya's father had reported bruises to police in September 2017.

Day first told an officer that Aniya had been sick since a family meal at a restaurant, that she had called a nurses' hotline, and that Aniya fell from the toilet. Detectives could not verify the restaurant story and found no record of the hotline call. The prosecutor's office said Euclid police arrested Day and Lewis after gathering information at the scene. Detective Jennifer Kroczak was the lead detective.

This recording is a police interview of Sierra Day; its exact date was not established. A detective tells her she will be charged in her daughter's death and that Aniya was already dead when the 911 call was made. Day says Lewis told her how to discipline Aniya, including making her hold her arms up, and that she could have stopped it.

Day and Lewis were tried together beginning February 27, 2019. On March 7, 2019, the jury found both guilty of aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, permitting child abuse, three counts of endangering children, and tampering with evidence. On March 20, 2019, Judge McCormick sentenced Day to life without the possibility of parole for aggravated murder, plus three years for tampering with evidence, to run concurrently. Lewis was sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility after 20 years. At sentencing, Judge McCormick said, "In my 24 years, I don't think I've seen such a callous disregard for human life that Sierra showed Aniya." The prosecutor's office had earlier described the neglect as "unfathomable." On November 12, 2020, the Eighth District Court of Appeals affirmed Day's convictions. In Lewis's separate appeal, the same court affirmed in part and reversed in part, ordering his child endangering convictions under R.C. 2919.22(B)(1) and (B)(2) vacated; his aggravated murder conviction stood. On February 8, 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court declined to accept Lewis's appeal, with four justices dissenting on one or more propositions.

The video is a police interview-room recording that runs about 123 minutes. It presents the interview itself and opens with a short narrated introduction naming the people involved.

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Part 2 of 3 of the recording described above.

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Part 3 of 3 of the recording described above.