Lake Katrine woman rejects settlement in overdose death of partner’s 14-year-old daughter – Daily Freeman

June 27, 2024

Kristin Delsanto outside Ulster County Court, Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman)

KINGSTON, NY — The Lake Katrine woman charged in the overdose death of her partner’s teenage daughter has rejected a plea agreement with Ulster County prosecutors that would have given her a prison sentence of three to nine years.

As a result, 30-year-old Kristin Delsanto will stand trial for the death of 14-year-old Hailey Hasbrouck on August 2, 2022.

Delsanto and Collin Schlegel, the girl’s father, were charged with first-degree manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, assault, criminal sale of a controlled substance (two counts), criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the girl’s overdose death on August 2, 2022.

Schlegel, 35, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter and unlawful possession of a controlled substance on May 20. The Ulster County District Attorney declined to disclose the terms of that deal. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 20 at 2 p.m.

In a brief hearing in Ulster County Court on Thursday, Assistant District Attorney Tara Waters offered a deal in which Delsanto would plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter in exchange for a lesser prison sentence of three to nine years.

Public defender Joey Drillings said after a brief meeting with Delsanto that his client would “not accept” the offer.

Judge Bryan Rounds set a trial date for February 10 at 9:30 a.m.

If convicted of first-degree manslaughter, Delsanto would face a prison sentence of five to 15 years.

Authorities said Hailey was living with her mother but was visiting her father with another juvenile on August 2, 2022, when Ulster Township Police received a 911 call from the other child reporting an “unconscious, unresponsive” 14-year-old girl, who they later learned was Hailey.

Hailey Hasbrouck (provided)

Emmanuel Nneji, Ulster County District Attorney and then-assistant district attorney, said at the time that police officers who responded to him “had reason to believe the child was suffering from a drug overdose,” but that attempts to resuscitate her with Narcan were unsuccessful and Hailey was pronounced dead at the scene.

After a year-long investigation, investigators determined that both Schlegel and Delsanto “knew about and contributed to the girl’s drug, alcohol and fentanyl use, which later led to her death.”

Both Schlegel and Delsanto are being held without bail in the Ulster County Jail.