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Gina Emmanuel appearing successful tribunal during her April 2025 execution proceedings successful Miami, Florida (WTVJ).
A 56-year-old erstwhile registered caregiver and adoptive parent of 3 successful Florida volition walk the remainder of her days down bars for killing her 7-year-old adopted daughter, beating, starving, and yet torturing the young miss to death portion astir causing the victim’s siblings to endure the aforesaid fate.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cristina Miranda connected Wednesday ordered Gina Emmanuel to service a condemnation of life successful a authorities correctional facility without the accidental of parole for the horrific 2018 slaying of young Samayah Emmanuel, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
A assemblage successful Miami earlier this period recovered Emmanuel blameworthy connected 1 number of first-degree premeditated execution successful Samayah’s death. Jurors besides convicted her of 2 counts of aggravated kid maltreatment implicit the brutal attraction of Samaya’s siblings, who were 5 and 12 years aged astatine the clip of Samaya’s death.
Thursday’s sentencing proceeding was attended by respective of the victims’ household members, including Emmanuel’s oldest adopted daughter, Ayanna Gordon, who is present 18 years old. Gordon spoke during the hearing, addressing Emmanuel directly.
“Don’t bash the transgression if you can’t bash the time. I’m letting God instrumentality this wheel. With that present said, I privation you good successful hell,” she said, seemingly quoting rapper Cardi B, according to a report from Miami CBS affiliate WFOR.
As Law&Crime previously reported, the atrocities Emmanuel inflicted upon her children included forcing them to devour quality feces, intentionally burning them connected the stove, chaining them to chairs, physically abusing them, and withholding nutrient and water, among different forms of torture.
Gordon besides provided captious grounds against her parent during the trial, speaking astir the horrors she and her sisters endured astatine the hands of their parent during the three-day trial, Miami NBC affiliate WTVJ reported.
“She would concatenation us, she would person america laic down, she would concatenation america and fastener america until she got back,” the girl reportedly told jurors.
During the trial, prosecutors said that Emmanuel, who fostered the children earlier adopting them, was fixated connected being successful power of each facet of her daughters’ lives and enforced her rules done heinous abuse, Miami ABC affiliate WPLG reported.
“You volition larn done this proceedings astir the defendant’s control,” prosecutors reportedly said during opening statements. “You’ll perceive she kept her refrigerator chained. These 3 girls were forced to urinate and defecate successful a bucket. They were malnourished, whipped and didn’t spot a pediatrician. What other was going to hap arsenic a effect of the choices she made?”
Emmanuel’s defence lawyer reportedly claimed that the registered caregiver engaged successful “reasonable corporal punishment” that did not magnitude to kid abuse, asserting that Samaya’s decease was mostly attributable to untreated diabetes.
“Should she person taken the kid to the hospital? Yes, absolutely, but it wasn’t murder. It was not kid abuse,” her lawyer reportedly told jurors.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle lauded the effect aft jurors convicted Emmanuel for her daughter’s murder.
“The blameworthy verdict successful Gina Emmanuel’s first-degree execution and kid maltreatment proceedings brought to the airy of time the horrors 7-year-old Samaya truthful tragically suffered earlier her death,”Rundle said successful a statement aft jurors recovered Emmanuel guilty. “No 1 could ever ideate that a trained caregiver would beat, torture, and starve Samaya and her 2 adopted sisters arsenic a means of instilling the defendant’s imaginativeness of discipline. The assemblage afloat understood that she yet ignored the suffering of young Samaya which led to this child’s death.”
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