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A New York City mom who brutally beat her nine-year-old daughter to death with an electrical cord and a broom during an argument over a missing tablet has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. 

A homicide investigation into the death of a nine-year-old girl in New York revealed horrific details about the child's dying moments.

Shamaine Cato allegedly waited two hours to call 911 after Shalom Guifarro, 9, died on Sunday. On Monday, Cato was pictured being escorted by NYPD officers to a cop car.

A 9-year-old girl was discovered dead with bite marks on her back and trauma to her head in an apartment she lived in with her mother, sister and a pit bull. Police found Shalom Guifarro at the apartment in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood...

Police said when they arrived at the apartment in Crown Heights the little girl was unconscious and unresponsive.

“They said it was a horrific crime scene,” a neighbor said, adding that he watched police officers who appeared to be wiping away tears.

The medical examiner's office is trying to figure out the cause of death, but detectives say they're not ruling out foul play.

Shamaine Cato, 48, the mother of a 9-year-old Brooklyn girl found dead in her familys apartment with head injuries and bite marks is being questioned by police after she waited to call 911

An autopsy will determine the cause of death and if a crime was committed.

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