(13 Oct 2012)
1. Tracking shot of Elizabeth Escalona entering courtroom and sitting down
2. Close-up of Texas State seal
3. Close-up of Escalona, seen from behind
4. Wide on Judge Larry Mitchell in court
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Larry Mitchell, Dallas County District Court Judge:
“To me it comes down to a single salient fact. On September 7th, 2011, you savagely beat your child to the edge of death. For this you must be punished. Please stand.”
6. Wide view of Escalona standing for verdict, UPSOUND: (English) Mitchell: “I find you guilty of the offence charged. I’ll set your sentence at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of 99 years,” (gasps in courtroom) “the sentence takes effect today as required by law you will received all back time credits. Chancellor, is there any reason in law why sentence should not be pronounced at this time?”
7. Mid of family members crying
8. Mid of prosecutor speaking to media
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eren Price, Prosecutor:
“I think everybody has obstacles in their life and the day that the justice system sends the message to people with obstacles that that becomes some excuse for your bad behaviour, for your poor choices, is the day that we should just open the doors of the jail up and let everybody out.”
10. Tilt down of media
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Angie N’Duka, Elizabeth Escalona’s attorney:
“She’s not evil, that’s all I can tell you. Elizabeth Escalona is a, a child, who never developed, who never had a childhood. So no, she’s not evil.”
12. Mid of Escalona’s relatives walking out of courtroom
13. Mid of Escalona’s relatives waiting for lift, surrounded by media
STORYLINE:
A Dallas woman who beat her two-year-old daughter and glued the toddler’s hands to a wall was sentenced in the US on Friday to 99 years in prison.
State District Judge Larry Mitchell announced Elizabeth Escalona’s 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 she deserved life.
Mitchell said his decision came down to one thing.
“On September 7th, 2011, you savagely beat your child to the edge of death,” he said.
“For this you must be punished.”
Escalona’s other children told authorities their mother attacked two-year-old Jocelyn Cedillo because of potty training problems.
Police said 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.”
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.
Escalona pleaded guilty in July to one count of felony injury to a child.
Price said Escalona would be eligible to apply for parole in 30 years.
“I think everybody has obstacles in their life and the day that the justice system sends the message to people with obstacles that that becomes some excuse for your bad behaviour, for your poor choices, is the day that we should just open the doors of the jail up and let everybody out,” said Price.
Escalona’s attorney, Angie N’Duka, had asked for probation or a prison sentence shorter than 10 years.
She argued that her client was the product of a broken home, abuse and a childhood that included illegal drugs and gangs.
“She’s not evil, that’s all I can tell you. Elizabeth Escalona is a child who never developed, who never had a childhood,” N’Duka said.
Escalona’s five children, including Jocelyn and a baby born after the attack, are in the care of their grandmother, Ofeila Escalona.
She had asked for leniency for her daughter.
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"she is a child" is … no doubt … children go out kill each other … of course …
hmm….ok
Oh YEA, stupid bitch is going to die in prison. Whoop whoop. ?
She got 99 problems now
What in the fuck does not having a childhood have to do with what she did to her child?
Demons.
That judge is ANGRY ANGRY
Just my humble opinion but I don't think he should be a judge. A year or two seem more just along with a fine , and anger management seminars.
Unfair. White people have to much proudness
Damn, 99 years is crazy. Not like she killed the child. All these harsh comments from people with alligator tears. I see no tears, outrage, protest from American bombs blowing children to pieces in the middle east. Literally blowing up children to pieces. I bet no one bother to look at the school bus photos where you can see assorted limbs on the ground.
"She's not evil"
Well, you're an idiot and you're just as evil as her because obviously you don't give a damn about the victim who happens to be a CHILD!
That a little extreme
It is coward to torture a child.
Would have literally given a standing ovation. She shouldn’t have even been allowed to sit down.
Savagely beats child and they're crying because she gets to LIVE in a prison?
Obviously I don’t agree with her but damn. Murders get away with 15 years at times. This wasn’t murder. What’s with the sentence
with good behavior she could be paroled in only 45 years
killed her children
mom:yeah i did that
ya got 99 years in prison
mom: 1:03
Haha bitch
Hope she dies
Bitch is now glued to confinement and her beatings will be an annual bonus till she offs herself!
Same sentence should be given to those who do this shit to animals.
Moral: don't have children
Her mom in the courtroom wailing……my mom would've climbing over those benches to strangle me if I had beat my child within an inch of her life. See, folks, this is what happens when you are never held accountable for your actions throughout your life.
If that were my daughter I wouldn't have shed a tear I would've wanted her locked up too. Bye bitch I don't know you.
99 years in prison:
My OCD: Ah shit here we go again, why not 100?
Wtf her mom is crying like a dumm ass didnt she hear what her daughter did to her grand baby. Wtf if my kids did some shit like that I would beat there ass then call the cops and make sure there ass get life in jail for doing some dumm shit to my grand kids. Wtf wrong with people man
Thank God she didn't get the full 100 years, that was a close call.
This is sick she needs life without parole, beating any child like this isnt discipline its child abuse almost to the point of murder.
1:58
If thats the best excuse you have then she shouldn't have had kids, who the hell has no ability to handle their own life on their own and then add kids in the mix? People who set themselves to fuck up or worse beat their children almost to death apparently. Dont try people with that obstacle bullshit their are people who have it even worse than her and their not supergluing their kids to walls to the point of skin peeling and beating their stomach in
To all you ghetto mother fuckers that don’t wanna work, this is what will happen to you if you don’t get your shit straight.
99 years though smh
If you eat healthy you might get out for one day then die
She deserves the 99 yrs. I'm surprised she didn't get more than that. She deserves no mercy.
I hope the child was adopted and not returned to a family member, their tears were for the mother
You weren’t crying when you were abusing your child, bitch!
This Sentence is terribly unjustified,there are several similar case on the thread below this vid about parents or kids maiming their family but none got up to fifty years in prison. There's something very malicious about this sentence.
This Sentence is terribly unjustified,there are several similar case on the thread below this vid about parents or kids maiming their family but none got up to fifty years in prison. There's something very malicious about this sentence.
Good job judge, Another POS locked up forever.
99 Years is Not Enough time, I'm thinking 199 is Fitting.
Her defense attorney is a delusional person, "obstacles in life"? what kind of obstacle is life presenting to you when you beat a toddler o most to death and then glue her hands to a fucking wall?
So tired of these family members crying out in court for the perpetrator whom has beaten and/or murdered a child. How dare you!!! That child is dead, cry for that little one!!!
If it had been my daughter that did this I would cheer & clap
These adults make me sick they're upset at the sentence but they don't think of this poor child almost dying from her beating on it
yes she is evil …. she beat her kids and gluded there hands together that is wrong SHE IS EVIL…