{"id":252347,"date":"2026-06-02T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/252347\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:13:17","slug":"former-new-york-state-trooper-faces-sentencing-in-death-of-11-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/252347\/","title":{"rendered":"Former New York state trooper faces sentencing in death of 11-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former New York state trooper convicted of manslaughter in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/christopher-baldner-murder-charge-dropped-monica-goods\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">crash that killed a little girl<\/a> faces sentencing Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Baldner was convicted in the death of 11-year-old Monica Goods back in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baldner had stopped a vehicle for driving more than 100 mph on the New York State Thruway. That vehicle was driven by Monica&#8217;s father, Tristin Goods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the traffic stop, there was a dispute, and Baldner used pepper spray, and Tristin Goods drove off. Baldner pursued and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/new-york-state-trooper-christopher-baldner-monica-goods-ulster-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">used his police vehicle to ram into the SUV twice<\/a>. Monica Goods was killed when the SUV flipped over, and she was ejected from the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her family is expected to read impact statements during sentencing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baldner faces up to 15 years in prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former New York state trooper convicted of manslaughter in a crash that killed a little girl faces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,747,27070],"class_list":["post-252347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-new-york-state-thruway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}