Dallas
– As Judge Larry Mitchell began to sentence a young woman to 99
years in the pen for super gluing her daughter's hands to a wall,
members of her family shouted, “No!”
Elizabeth
Escalona, 23, rejected a prosecutor's original offer of a 45-year
sentence in the beating and abuse of her daughter Jocelyn. The child
annoyed her 23-year-old mother over her difficulties with potty
training.
The
child recovered from a comatose state for which she was hospitalized
due to bleeding on her brain. Her body was covered with bruises and
bite marks. Some of the skin of the little girl's hands had been torn
off when her hands came unstuck from the wall.
Ms.
Escalona broke down during the punishment phase of her judge trial
when Prosecutor Eren Price forced her to look at color photos of the
child's condition following the near-fatal beating.
Judge
Mitchell told Ms. Escalona that he believed testimony elicited during
the punishment phase of her trial as to the abuse she suffered as a
child.
“And
again, outside of the context of this trial, I think even the state
would find you to be a sympathetic figure, because they prosecute
people for what was done to you. But I can't consider that evidence
outside of the context of this trial.”
Ms.
Escalona's five children are in the custody of her mother.
Her
attorney had asked the judge to sentence her to a probated term of
sentence,.
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