Excerpt: An East Harlem woman who admitted to killing her 6-year-old foster child by giving her a narcotic pain patch made a deal with prosecutors Friday that will keep her out of jail.

Joanne Alvarez, 54, a home health aide, will get five years' probation when she is sentenced in March. She pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court to criminally negligent homicide, which carries a maximum of four years in jail.

Prosecutors who had been urging ...