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"GALVESTON, Texas – A slain toddler tried to stop her mother and stepfather from beating her to death by reaching out to her mother and saying, "I love you," a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday. The pleas from 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers didn't stop her mother, Kimberly Trenor, from continuing to brutalize her, assistant district attorney Kayla Allen said in her opening statement at Trenor's murder trial.
But defense attorney Tommy Stickler Jr. told the jury that Trenor, 20, never intended to kill her daughter in 2007 and that things just "spun out of control."
The toddler was dubbed "Baby Grace" by investigators who worked to identify her decomposed remains after the body was found in a plastic container in October 2007 on a tiny island in Galveston Bay.
Trenor's 25-year-old husband, Royce Zeigler II, is to be tried separately on murder charges. His attorney points the finger at Trenor.
Prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty because they didn't think they could prove that either one would be a future danger, as required."
Prosecutor: Slain toddler said 'I love you' at end - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090128/ap_on_re_us/child_s_remains - broken link)
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How horrible. I almost started crying when I read this and saw the girls beautiful face.
How can people do this? Sure, they may get frustrated with the kid but KILL them? How can you kill your child who is telling you that she loves you?
HOW HEARTLESS.
Please, don't mind me. I am awfully upset about this. I am going to college right now for child psychology so I can be a social worker for children. Child abuse really hits the spot for me.
I feel for people involved, but seriously this stuff happens almost weekly on the southside of Chicago. Just today they found a dead 2 year old in a roach and garbage infested house. A former Chicago Bulls player's former girlfriend and her infant son were brutally murdered this week. Welfare queens sometimes drop infants in garbage dumpsters too. Heartless indeed, I have no idea how people can be like this.
Being a father to a two year old myself, I can honestly say that there is absolutley no way I could kill my darling little girl unless I was completely insane. I can honestly see an insanity plea in this case.
Children are the only purity on this planet. They are born to give love unconditionally, and they do not naturally hate anyone. They don't see color, just potential playmates, and it is only through corrupting contact with adults that they are taught evil things.
Anyone who hurts a child is my sworn enemy, and even though I am a peaceful person, I would have no compunction whatever about throwing the switch on scum like this and I would sleep well that night.
If they are not given the death penalty, they should be welded into their cells and their existence forgotten by humanity, for they are no longer fit to live among decent souls.
I wish they could come and visit me for the weekend. I could save the state of Texas a lot of money.
They said there will be no death penalty. I wonder why!
"Prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty because they didn't think they could prove that either one would be a future danger, as required."
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