MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida nurse was sentenced to life in jail following her conviction within the 2018 homicide of her 7-year-old adopted daughter, a report from NBC affiliate WTVJ mentioned.
Gina Emmanuel, a 56-year-old Miami-Dade registered nurse, was convicted April 15 of first-degree homicide for 7-year-old Samaya, and the abuse of her two different adopted kids, court docket data present.
In accordance with WTVJ, prosecutors mentioned Emmanuel abused her kids for a number of months, forcing them to eat human waste, burning their palms on a range, taping them to a chair, chaining them and withholding meals and water. She additionally reportedly locked the fridge and restricted them to particular meals.
Within the trial, Dr. Emma Lew, a retired medical expert, advised jurors Samaya had accidents “from her face, all the way down to her neck, all the way down to her chest, stomach, again, each arms and each legs,” the information outlet reported.
Lew dominated the kid’s reason for demise as acute and continual bodily and emotional abuse, WTVJ mentioned.
One of many survivors, Emmanuel’s former adoptive daughter Ayanna Gordon, 18, spoke out within the trial, saying Emmanuel acquired what she deserved.
“If you cannot do the time, I’m letting God take this wheel,” she mentioned. “And with that being mentioned, I want you properly in hell.”
WTVJ reported that Emmanuel by no means apologized throughout Wednesday’s sentencing, as Gordon advised the outlet that the ladies knew precisely what she did.
“Despite the fact that she harm me, she did train me quite a lot of issues. I can carry a few of that sooner or later, however one thing I cannot carry is that if I ever have kids, I will not make the identical mistake she did,” Gordon advised WTVJ. “Like I mentioned, she mentioned she was a troublesome cookie. I am harder.”
In accordance with WTVJ, the 2 surviving kids are doing properly. Gordon will probably be graduating from highschool and plans to go to school to main in Enterprise.
