Texas 99!

23 year old mother of five, Elizabeth Escalona was sentenced to 99 years in prison for child abuse. This type of punishment will sound alarms with the Supreme Court over cruel and unusual punishment.

God damn it's cruel and unusual punishment for some individuals who are sentenced for crimes. In the state of Texas, there's a governor who isn't ashamed of the death penalty. He tried to run for president and got slaughtered by a perennial candidate for higher office. This governor once labeled the perennial candidate a "flip-flopper" on issues such as this one!

God damn this Texas Justice is a bitch!

And this one doosy!

A mother in Texas was sentenced to 99 years in prison for child abuse. She beat her child and then super glued her hands together and then to a wall after the child wasn't compliant to her mother's demand for potty training.

The mother of five is Hispanic and the judge was White and jury was likely the same.

CNN reports that the Texas mother who super-glued her 2-year-old daughter's hands to a wall and beat her over potty training problems was sentenced Friday morning to 99 years in prison, a Dallas County felony records department district clerk said.

Elizabeth Escalona, 23, will be eligible to ask for parole in 30 years. She pleaded guilty in July to a charge of first-degree injury to a child, a crime punishable by anywhere between probation and life in prison.

"This mom was pure evil, and her children are better off without her," prosecutor Eren Price said after a judge delivered Friday's sentence. "Her five kids now have a chance to lead a productive life."

Escalona’s attorney said that the sentence was excessive and that an appeal would be filed, CNN affiliate KTVT reported.

Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, governor of Texas.

Escalona's daughter Jocelyn Cedillo was less than two months shy of her 3rd birthday in September 2011 when Escalona used a powerful adhesive to glue her hands to a wall and beat her because of potty training troubles, authorities said.

Three other children belonging to Escalona, who was pregnant at the time, witnessed the abuse, according to Dallas County district attorney's office spokeswoman Debbie Denmon.


The child urinated on herself during the ordeal, during which she was hit in head and kicked in the groin, among other forms of abuse, Denmon said.

Oefelia Escalona, the defendant's mother, testified during her daughter's sentencing hearing this week that she found the girl and took her to a hospital. Once Jocelyn was there, medical authorities noticed severe bruises to her face and head, as well as a severe brain injury that led to her temporarily being in a coma.

At this week's sentencing hearing, prosecutors showed pictures of Jocelyn's hands and bruised body and forehead.

"The entire picture was very shocking," said Dr. Amy Barton, then a child abuse pediatrician at Children's Medical Center of Dallas, choking back tears on the stand on Monday. "I see a lot of children, and this was one of the most shocking cases that I have seen."

Escalona asked for leniency during her sentencing hearing this week, saying she behaved like a monster but deserved a second chance, KTVT reported. Her mother asked the judge to sentence Elizabeth to probation, according to KTVT.

Price initially offered a plea bargain of 45 years in prison, but Escalona turned it down, the district attorney's office said.

Price said that the judge, after learning more about Escalona during the hearing, was justified in sentencing her to more time.

"Elizabeth Escalona wasn't sorry for what she did to 2-year-old Jocelyn. Elizabeth Escalona felt sorry for herself," Price said. "Those tears on the stand were for her and not for the toddler she tortured."

An attempt to reach Escalona's attorney for comment Friday was not immediately successful.

Before this incident, Escalona had been investigated by Texas Child Protective Services but never arrested or charged, Denmon said.

The child welfare agency put all of her children in foster care after Jocelyn was taken to the hospital. All five of them, including Jocelyn, are now in the custody of their grandmother, Oefelia Escalona.

The sentencing of Elizabeth Escalona is a ringing bell to how our U.S. justice system treats Blacks and Hispanics.

I understand this isn't the parent of the year, but this sentence is begging for an appeal and national look into how the justice system works against Blacks and Hispanic/Latinos.

This young mother of five should have at least gotten less than 10 years in prison for such an act. The mother didn't murder her child. That's the problem. If she murdered her child, yeah lock her ass up!

Texas is one of the most conservative states in the central plains. The southern state allows firearm owners to carry in open public. The state's governor Rick Perry, former presidential candidate is proud of giving the death penalty to those who commit acts that involve killing of individuals. There's likely no clemency to those who are charge in crimes that are felonious.