HILO, Hawai'i — The sentencing of a Big Island woman who pleaded guilty to the abuse of a 10-year-old girl who almost died in her care has been rescheduled for Oct. 29.

Hyacinth Poouahi pleaded guilty in May to first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor, first-degree assault, unlawful imprisonment and first-degree terroristic threatening.

Poouahi faces up to 20 years in prison for failing to protect the girl.

Paramedics found the girl unconscious when they responded to a 911 call at a house in Ainaloa in February 2005.

The girl had been left with Poouahi by her mother three months earlier.

Police and court documents say she was found with stab wounds, burn marks that appeared to be caused by cigarettes, and a maggot-infested wound on her head.