Staff photo / Ed Runyan Adrianne L. Hudson, 33, of Youngstown, center, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and felony child endangering in the Sept. 29, 2023, drowning death of Hudson’s cousin’s child, Londyn A. Cayson, 2. Hudson will be sentenced Thursday morning.

YOUNGSTOWN — Adrianne L. Hudson, 33, will be sentenced 10 a.m. Thursday after pleading guilty a second time in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to involuntary manslaughter and felony child endangering Monday in the Sept. 29, 2023, drowning death of Hudson’s cousin’s child, Londyn A. Cayson, 2.

The girl died in a swimming pool in the backyard of Hudson’s house on Ridgelawn Avenue in Youngstown while Hudson was babysitting the girl. Hudson’s plea agreement calls for Hudson to get five- to seven-and-a-half years in prison.

According to a Youngstown police report, Hudson was watching Londyn when Hudson realized the child was gone. Hudson said Londyn and another child were playing in the front yard as she was talking to another relative.

“She stated that after talking for a few minutes, they noticed that (Londyn) was missing. They went around the back of the house and found her floating in the pool,” the report states.

“She advised that about five minutes elapsed between when she saw (Londyn) playing and when they found her floating in the pool.” An ambulance took the child to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. Officers learned later the child died.

Hudson pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and felony child endangering Aug. 15, 2025, with a prosecutor recommendation of eight to 12 years in prison.

On Oct. 21, 2025, after Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Hudson to six- to 11 years in prison Oct. 3, 2025, attorney Lou DeFabio filed a motion asking for Hudson to be able to rescind her guilty plea, citing the multiple times Sweeney advised Hudson’s attorneys that Sweeney planned to sentence Hudson to a minimum of five years in prison.

Sweeney agreed to allow Hudson to withdraw the plea. Hudson was released from prison, and Sweeney set Hudson’s case for trial on Monday.

But after three hours of negotiations between Hudson’s attorneys and prosecutors Monday morning, another plea agreement was reached that calls for a five- to seven-and-a-half year sentence agreed upon by the prosecution and defense..

During his remarks in the plea hearing Monday, Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Daniel Yozwiak said, “I want to make it very clear for the record that the victim’s family is here in the courtroom today,” he said. “They have graciously consented to the state making this recommendation. But I want to make it very clear they are not very happy with it. And they shouldn’t be.”

Nonetheless, he hopes Sweeney will adopt the new sentence recommendation, Yozwiak said.

DeFabio noted in his remarks that this plea agreement has an agreed-upon recommendation. “And if the court imposes it, (Hudson) would forego her right to appeal the sentence,” DeFabio said.

The attorneys said they expect Hudson to get credit Thursday for the time she spent in prison the first time. Hudson was not taken into custody Monday.