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Grandpa Who Accidentally Dropped Toddler on Cruise Ship Takes Plea Deal
February 26, 2020
Salvatore Anello, the Indiana grandfather who has been accused of accidentally dropping his 18-month-old granddaughter out a window to her death on a cruise ship last year, has reportedly pleaded guilty to negligent homicide. Anello has maintained that he and his granddaughter, Chloe Wiegand, were in a play area on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship last July, and said he thought the window she fell out of was closed. He said when Chloe went to bang on it, she fell from the 11th floor.