Grandmother Sentenced To Life In Prison For Killing Her Granddaughter

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Helen Ford, the Chicago grandmother who ended the life of her granddaughter Gizzell in 2013, has been sentenced to life in prison. The woman coldly killed her granddaughter by strangling her and beating her to the last breath of the little girl.

Alarms went off for prosecutors when a newspaper with a rainbow of the girl was discovered. In it, Gizzy, as they lovingly knew her, described in great detail how she was tortured by her grandmother in different ways.

Sometimes he forced her to keep the same position for hours, in others he chained her to a bed and always with the same common point, beatings and physical abuse.

"I hope I don't do anything wrong today because I really want to sit down, watch TV, and play with everyone," Gizzell wrote in one of the parts. "I'm going to be great all day." However, she was wrong and nothing went as she expected. This was reflected in another paragraph. "Uncertain. I failed."

The next day his body appeared lifeless full of bumps and scratches. According to PEOPLE magazine, the little girl's father was also involved in this abuse, she was the one who orchestrated it while her mother, the grandmother, carried it out. The parent died before the trial was held from a long illness.

During the trial, Judge Evelyn Clay could not hide her anger when addressing the defendant, 55, describing what happened as torture. “That girl suffered a slow and agonizing death. That small body appears to have been pounded from head to toe. The treatment of this girl was demonic, said Clay.

The defendant simply blamed the victim for the injuries sustained and even went so far as to say that she herself fell to the ground causing them. The magistrate ended by ordering her to be silent.