Grandmother Sentenced To Torture Her Granddaughter To Death

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

As taken from a horror story, it seems the case of the death of the little Gizzell Ford, just 8 years old, who was beaten, tortured and strangled by her grandmother, Helen Ford.

The case, which shocked the Chicago city community for its cruelty, appears to have reached its final chapter, after Judge Evelyn Clay sentenced her to spend the rest of her days in prison for the first-degree murder of the little one.

"This murder was torture. The girl suffered a slow and agonizing death,”Clay said at the time of the ruling, as reported on the Fox News online site. "Her small body seemed to have been mistreated from head to toe … her treatment of Gizzell was evil," she added.

During the trial, which stole the attention of the entire country, the prosecution provided evidence of how the 55-year-old woman tied the little girl to a bed, denied her food and water for days, hit her mouth with a spatula, in addition to We inhumane other treatment to which the girl submitted day after day before her death.

One of the most heartbreaking moments in the trial against Ford was when a Chicago forensic investigator could not hold back tears as she appeared on the stand to describe the injuries the girl found on the body during the autopsy.

The report also adds that Gizzell's mother, Sandra Mercado, has sued the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, because according to her, employees of the entity that visited the house where the girl lived ignored evident signs of abuse in against him, that if they had been investigated they would have saved his life.