 |
| Elizabeth Escalona receives 99-year prison sentence |
In handing down the stiff sentence, State District Judge Larry Mitchell told Escalona that in spite of the "heartbreaking" and "compelling" evidence presented on both sides, "to me, it comes down to a single, salient fact: you savagely beat your child to the edge of death… for this you must be punished."
During the September 2011 attack, police said Escalona kicked her daughter, Jocelyn Cedillo, in the stomach, beat her with a milk jug, then stuck her hands to an apartment wall with an adhesive commonly known as Super Glue.
Jocelyn suffered bleeding in her brain, a fractured rib, multiple bruises and bite marks, a doctor testified. Some skin had been torn off her hands, where doctors also found glue residue and white paint chips from the apartment wall.
The toddler was so badly injured she remained hospitalized in a coma for nearly a week. She was on a respirator for several days, but has since recovered. She and her siblings were taken into state custody after their mother’s arrest.
Escalona pleaded guilty in July to one count of felony injury to a child. Escalona had been offered a plea deal of 45 years in prison but turned it down.
Escalona will not be eligible for parole for 30 years.
she is a selfish pig!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't know what age it is that memories begin to form but I hope that Jocelyn will have little or no recollection of what was done to her. It might be better for her to have absolutely no memory of her mother at all than to have to deal with the fact that the person she should have been able to trust did something so awful.
ReplyDeleteThe only saving grace in all of this is that Jocelyn survived. Hopefully she now has a chance of a childhood that isn't a dark place or something to run away from. Safeguarding children is so important. No-one should have to look very far to find a happy memory from their childhood.