Escalona’s other children told authorities that their mother attacked Jocelyn Cedillo in September 2011 due to potty training problems. Police say she kicked her daughter in the stomach, beat her with a milk jug, then stuck her hands to an apartment wall with an adhesive commonly known as Super Glue. LM Otero / The Associated PressElizabeth Escalona, 23, enters a courtroom for sentencing, in Dallas, Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. Jocelyn suffered bleeding in her brain, a fractured rib, multiple bruises and bite marks, and was in a coma for a couple of days, a doctor testified at the sentencing hearing. Some skin had been torn off her hands, where doctors also found glue residue and white paint chips from the apartment wall. (via Elizabeth Escalona cries when shown photos of injuries she gave child | World | News | National Post)
I’m of two minds about this. We condemn a mother who admits to her crimes to 99 years but we let white collar criminals who steal billions and never admit to anything to get away..
