Coast Guard mother released from brig after baby manslaughter conviction overturned [Video]

SAN DIEGO — A U.S. Coast Guard petty officer acquitted of first-degree murder charges in the death of her 5-month-old daughter has been released from the Miramar brig.

Kate Richard was convicted in 2022 of the lesser charge of manslaughter in the infant’s death. She spent two years behind bars before an appellate court overturned her conviction.

Richard, 27, walked out of the Miramar brig on April 18, four years to the day after she found her daughter, Scarlett, dead in a crib inside a home she shared with her husband in Kodiak, Alaska.

She was serving a six-year prison sentence at MCAS Miramar.

“The first night I got there, I was on the floor of a holding cell, cement with nothing around me on the ground in a fetal position, bawling saying I didn’t do this. I …