Judge sentences ex-nurse to life in prison for 7-year-old adoptive daughter’s murder

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 56-year-old pistillate who tortured her adoptive children until 1 of them died was impassive during her sentencing proceeding connected Wednesday successful Miami-Dade County court.

Gina Emmanuel besides chose not to explicit remorse. The authorities trusted her with the information of Samaya, Samariah, Ayanna, and Tanaya successful 2014 and she adopted them successful 2017.

During the trial, a assemblage learned that 7-year-old Samaya suffered burns, wounds, and whip-like marks erstwhile she died successful 2018 aft a respiratory corruption devolved into pneumonia and sepsis.

“I privation you good successful hell,” Ayanna Gordon, present 18, told Emmanuel astatine the sentencing hearing.

Samaya’s sister Samariah Gordon was besides successful the courtroom erstwhile Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Cristina Miranda sentenced Emmanuel to beingness successful situation for Samaya’s murder.

Samaya’s siblings told investigators and jurors however Emmanuel starved them, forced them to devour feces, burned their hands connected the stove, and utilized portion and chains to retrain them, records show.

Detectives arrested Emmanuel, past a registered nurse, successful 2019 aft an probe showed that Samaya had died arsenic a effect of her horrific neglect and abuse, according to prosecutors.

On April 15, aft proceeding the survivors’ testimony, a assemblage recovered Emmanuel blameworthy of first-degree execution and 2 counts of aggravated kid maltreatment with large bodily harm.

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle released a connection aft the condemnation praising the courageousness Samaya’s sister, past 12 years old, had to archer the truth.

“No 1 could ever ideate that a trained caregiver would beat, torture, and starve Samaya and her 2 adopted sisters,” Fernandez Rundle said in the April 16 statement.

Robert Gordon, Samaya’s visually impaired grandfather, said helium was aggravated erstwhile helium learned that Emmanuel was not apologizing to her victims during the hearing.

“I privation I could person been progressive sooner,” the gramps said his dependable breaking. He besides faced Emmanuel and said, “I deliberation astir inflicting symptom connected you each day.”

For the 2 kid maltreatment convictions, Miranda besides sentenced Emmanuel to 2 30-year situation presumption to beryllium served concurrently. Her defence plans to entreaty the case.

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