A mother of a toddler
was found guilty of super gluing her child’s hands to the wall and beating her.
She was sentenced to 99 years in prison. She did all of this over potty
training. Escalona's daughter Jocelyn Cedillo was less than two months shy of
her 3rd birthday in September 2011 when Escalona used a powerful adhesive to
glue her hands to a wall and beat her because of potty training troubles,
authorities said. Three other children belonging to Escalona, who was pregnant
at the time, witnessed the abuse, according to Dallas County district
attorney's office spokeswoman Debbie Denmon. The child urinated on herself during
the ordeal, during which she was hit in head and kicked in the groin, among
other forms of abuse, Denmon said. Oefelia Escalona, the defendant's mother,
testified during her daughter's sentencing hearing this week that she found the
girl and took her to a hospital. Once Jocelyn was there, medical authorities
noticed severe bruises to her face and head, as well as a severe brain injury
that led to her temporarily being in a coma. At this week's court proceedings,
prosecutors showed pictures of Jocelyn's hands and bruised body and forehead.
Why would anyone beat their child? I don’t
understand this at all. But anyways, in my opinion, Escalona was sentenced to
the right amount of time; she almost beat her kid to death! The little girl is
in a coma now, and the mother is in prison with no way of seeing her. She doesn’t
deserve to be the guardian any longer because of the act she has committed.
cnn.com
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