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Mom gets 99 years in prison for gluing tot's hands

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Mom gets 99 years in prison for gluing tot's hands - Yahoo! News

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas woman who beat her 2-year-old daughter and glued the toddler's hands to a wall was sentenced Friday to 99 years in prison by a judge who described his decision as a necessary punishment for a brutal, shocking attack.


Elizabeth Escalona did not immediately react as State District Judge Larry Mitchell pronounced the sentence at the end of a five-day hearing. Prosecutor Eren Price, who originally offered Escalona a plea deal for 45 years, had argued that she now thought the 23-year-old mother deserved life.

Mitchell said his decision came down to one thing.


"On Sept. 7, 2011, you savagely beat your child to the edge of death," Mitchell said. "For this you must be punished."

The beating left Jocelyn Cedillo in a coma for a couple of days.


Escalona's other children told authorities their mother attacked Jocelyn due to potty training problems. Police say she kicked her daughter 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.
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For once I agree with a ruling from Texas. What this thing did to her daughter is torturous to the point of attempted murder. People like this should NOT be allowed to have children.
 
I've been following this on my local news ... I am glad she got 99 years..... I shudder each time I think about that poor child and what she went through at the hands of this monster.
 
Should have been death, IMO. This girl is lucky to have survived.
 
I support the ruling as well. I would personally also like to see labor camps for prisoners with this woman sent to one of the harshest ones.
 
I wonder how many months she will actually have to serve and how long after she gets out the child is returned to her.
 
I just hope that the child is young enough to be placed in a loving home without having to remember the trauma of her abuse.
 
I'll be a devils advocate here. I understand the personal gut instinct to want to inflict as much punishment as possible, it's natural for us to seek retribution and to fuel or indignation through it. But is society best effected by sending her to prison essentially for life? Is this women likely unreformable? Will she realistically seek to better herself, treatment, etc if she knows that she has no future? We've created a permanent ward of the state and added another life time member of our broken prison system. Obviously this is an easy case to jump on, but gratuitous sentencing with no real discussion over what the purpose is of imprisoning people is something that bothers me.
 
The title of the article is a bit misleading. 99 years for gluing your childs hands...that might be a wee bit extreme. 99 years for beating your child into a coma...maybe not near enough.
 
I never fail to be shocked at what some parents can do to their children. Stomach turning. I hope she never breathes free air again.
 
tessaesque said:
Should have been death, IMO. This girl is lucky to have survived.
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Since I think anyone put in prison for life without possibility of parole, which this ought to be, should just be taken out and shot, I agree.
 
Patrickt said:
I wonder how many months she will actually have to serve and how long after she gets out the child is returned to her.
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The article said she's not eligible for parole for 30 years. So the child will be an adult by the time she gets out. She will also most likely have gone through menopause and will be unable to have any other children, so it seems like she won't be able to do this kind of harm again.

The thing that I found the strangest about the whole thing was this.

Mitchell could have sentenced Escalona to anywhere from probation to life in prison.
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Maybe there should be some better defined sentencing guidelines. That seems to be a pretty large range there.
 
samsmart said:
I keep telling people.

Birth control should be mandatory for people until they complete a 2-year course on parenting.
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Not sure that a course on parenting would cut down on crazy.
 
I think they should glue her hands to her cell wall and every morning everyone should line up and pee on her - for 99 years.
 
molten_dragon said:
The thing that I found the strangest about the whole thing was this.
Maybe there should be some better defined sentencing guidelines. That seems to be a pretty large range there.
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Sherman123 said:
I'll be a devils advocate here. I understand the personal gut instinct to want to inflict as much punishment as possible, it's natural for us to seek retribution and to fuel or indignation through it. But is society best effected by sending her to prison essentially for life? Is this women likely unreformable? Will she realistically seek to better herself, treatment, etc if she knows that she has no future? We've created a permanent ward of the state and added another life time member of our broken prison system. Obviously this is an easy case to jump on, but gratuitous sentencing with no real discussion over what the purpose is of imprisoning people is something that bothers me.
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I think you both bring up excellent points.

Clearly, what this woman did was HORRIBLE. I mean absolutely despicably horrible. However, I find it really unsettling that the punishment guidelines were between probation and life imprisonment. That's simply too much power for a single person to have. I think it's possible that people involved in this case were acting emotionally. (Who wouldn't? It's a very emotional topic.)
 
Risky Thicket said:
I think they should glue her hands to her cell wall and every morning everyone should line up and pee on her - for 99 years.
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Okay, I get the gluing her hands to the wall part, an eye for an eye and all that, but why pee on her? She didn't pee on the little girl. Wouldn't it make more sense to glue her hands to the wall and then beat her into a coma?
 
molten_dragon said:
Okay, I get the gluing her hands to the wall part, an eye for an eye and all that, but why pee on her? She didn't pee on the little girl. Wouldn't it make more sense to glue her hands to the wall and then beat her into a coma?
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Yeah, and then pee on her till she came to.
 
molten_dragon said:
I still don't get where the peeing is coming from. Be honest Risky, do you just like peeing on people?
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Rule Thirty Six, I think it is. No matter how disgusting, bizarre, or whatever else you think something is, somewhere, there is someone who gets off sexually on it. It appears that we've found a mild example.
 
I never have much sympathy for these people, and someone abusing children often makes me question my views on capital punishment.
 
Hatuey said:
Mom gets 99 years in prison for gluing tot's hands - Yahoo! News



For once I agree with a ruling from Texas. What this thing did to her daughter is torturous to the point of attempted murder. People like this should NOT be allowed to have children.
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Sorry but 99 years is a crazy out of proportion punishment for this.

Yes she should be punished, even with jail time, and have her kids removed from her. But throwing her in jail for the rest of her life? come on...... that is beyond insane.
 
PeteEU said:
Sorry but 99 years is a crazy out of proportion punishment for this.

Yes she should be punished, even with jail time, and have her kids removed from her. But throwing her in jail for the rest of her life? come on...... that is beyond insane.
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She beat her 2 year old kid into a coma, and she is eligible for parole in 30 years. She got what she deserved.
 
saveUS222 said:
She beat her 2 year old kid into a coma, and she is eligible for parole in 30 years. She got what she deserved.
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Yeah, it wasn't just a matter of gluing her hands to the wall. She glued her to the wall and hit and kicked her into a coma. And then it wasn't even like the mother thought "oh, crap, what have I done?" No, it was the grandma who found the little girl like that and took her to the hospital.

She will be eligible for parole in 30 years. That seems more than fair for this kind of depravity.
 
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