WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 23-year-old Lebanon woman who served time in prison in New Hampshire for a murder-for-hire plot in Claremont in November 2016 has pleaded guilty to a child cruelty charge in Vermont.
The charge stemmed from Monique Earle failing to seek medical care in May 2016 for her then-3-week-old infant, who had a broken collarbone and fractured knees, according to an affidavit in Windsor Superior Court.
Earle told police that she and her boyfriend, Ryan Ramos, may have caused the trauma when they got into an argument “and had a tug of war over (the infant’s) small body,” Hartford police officer Kristinnah Adams wrote in the affidavit. How the infant sustained the injuries wasn’t conclusive.
Earle pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor child cruelty charge in May. She received a suspended 3- to 18-month sentence, and was placed on probation.
Earle served two years in the New Hampshire Department of Corrections custody following convictions in June 2017 in a Sullivan Superior Court case where she attempted to hire a hit man to murder another woman.
— Staff report