Grandmother's Trial That Killed Her Granddaughter Is About To End

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

The trial of Helen Ford, the grandmother accused of beating her 2013 granddaughter Gizzell Ford in 2013 to the death of 2013, could be concluded in the next few hours. The case has shocked Chicago for its brutality, after prosecutors argued in court that the 70-pound little girl had been tortured to death - and literally beaten from head to toe - by her grandmother who was carrying more than 200 pounds..

The little girl's despair was reflected in the procedure through a dozen pages of her diary that were presented by the prosecution as evidence. In her writings, the girl described how she enjoyed her school games but her stories gave way to the litany of abuse to which she was subjected by her father, Andre Ford, and her paternal grandmother, with whom she lived. "I hate this life because now I'm in super big trouble," the little girl wrote shortly before she died. Ford's father, in turn, died in prison of a heart attack while waiting to be prosecuted for the girl's death, the Chicago Tribune newspaper reported.

At her grandmother's trial, the prosecution showed evidence that "Gizzy" - as her friends called the girl - was punished by keeping her tied to her father's bed, denied food and water for several days, and beaten with a spatula in the mouth. While her grandmother hung a belt around her neck with which she hit the girl, she was forced to eat spicy food and stand on one foot with open arms, among other punishments.

A 30-year-old Chicago Police forensic investigator who testified in court began to cry when she described how severe the injuries were on the face of the girl's body.

In her short life, Ford dreamed of one day breaking free from the physical abuse to which she was subjected. "I know that if I am good and I do everything they tell me I will not be punished," wrote in her diary the girl who obtained only Ace in her grades and who wanted to leave the house and return to the safety of her school to start the fourth grade. from elementary school. That dream was not realized because the authorities discovered her strangled and severely beaten body on the floor of her father's room.