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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
HILO >> A mother whose infant daughter starved to death has been sentenced to one year in jail and placed on 10 years' probation. Mother gets 1 year;
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Saraswati Mulder, 24, also known as Saraswati Gopi Lacasse, had been charged with murder, but pleaded guilty in July to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Mulder's daughter, Manjai Mulder, was 10 weeks old when she died Oct. 27, 1999. At the time she weighed 6 pounds, more than 1.5 pounds less than her birth weight.
Mulder said her daughter had been ill and that she relied on alternative treatments. Circuit Judge Greg Nakamura said Mulder, mother of two other children, can begin serving her sentence after giving birth to another child in two weeks.
HONOLULU
Search on for man, 38, missing after swim
Rescue divers and a helicopter from the Honolulu Fire Department resumed a search this morning for a 38-year-old Honolulu man who failed to return home after swimming at Ala Moana Beach yesterday.The man's cousin reported him missing about 6:10 p.m. after finding his car at the beach parking lot, police said.
Police later found his beach chair, towel, cellular telephone and car keys at a lifeguard station. Firefighters searched for about two hours last night.
NEIGHBOR ISLAND
Motorcycle victim ID'd as Hilo man, 23
The motorcyclist who died in an accident in Puna last week has been identified as Kapono K. Miller, 23, of Hilo.Police said Miller apparently was injured fatally Wednesday night when his dirt bike ran off Makuu Drive near 31st Avenue in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision.
His body was found the next morning and taken to Hilo Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Police said speed and alcohol may have been factors in the accident.
LEEWARD OAHU
Teenage boy charged in sex assault on girl, 5
Police have charged a 15-year-old Waipahu boy with sexual assaulting a 5-year-old girl.The boy was taken to the Alder Street detention home after he was arrested Saturday.
