Dental assistant Kayodi Satchell has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of eight-year-old Danielle Rowe.

Satchell will have to serve 27 years before becoming eligible for parole.

The sentence was handed down by Justice Carolyn Tie-Powell in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston on Friday (December 20).

Satchell was also given a six-year and three-month sentence for the abduction of the child, with both sentences set to run concurrently.

Satchell was charged in August 2023 for the murder and abduction of the child.

During a court hearing, her attorney revealed that Satchell committed the brutal crime after allegedly contracting HIV from Danielle’s father.

Danielle, a second-grade student at Braeton Primary and Infant School in St Catherine, was reportedly abducted from school. She was later discovered by a member of the Jamaica Defence Force, with her throat slashed. She was rushed to the Bustamante Hospital for Children, where she succumbed to her injuries.