St. Louis mom sentenced to 78 years in prison after waterboarding children
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- Updated: 19 Nov 2014
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A mother in St. Louis who admitted to beating and whipping, along with waterboarding, her young children, was sentenced to 78 years in prison Friday. Lakeschia Schonta Stanley, 34, faced 34 felony charges. A school librarian brought the brutal torture to light in Oct. 2011, after one of the children then 10 years old had gone to school and complained of her severe pain, after being battered with a baseball bat. In a sentencing memorandum for the judge, assistant circuit attorney Tanja Engelhard wrote: "What the defendant did to three of her own children far exceeds the definition of child abuse and amounts to systematic torture. She was supposed to be their mother, the one person they could trust. Instead she became a symbol of betrayal and fear, using every tool at her disposal to beat and torture her own innocent children," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. "According to prosecutors, interviews with the girls revealed prolonged abuse in which they had been waterboarded, whipped with electrical cords, forced into scalding or freezing showers, and beaten with an array of blunt objects," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch details. "Further investigation revealed significant scarring on all three of the women's children, prosecutors said, and even worse emotional trauma." Andrew Rui Stanley, the woman's husband, reportedly pleaded guilty last year to 42 felony counts on related charges. The 30-year-old was sentenced to 160 years in prison.
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A mother in St. Louis who admitted to beating and whipping, along with waterboarding, her young children, was sentenced to 78 years in prison Friday. Lakeschia Schonta Stanley, 34, faced 34 felony charges. A school librarian brought the brutal torture to light in Oct. 2011, after one of the children then 10 years old had gone to school and complained of her severe pain, after being battered with a baseball bat. In a sentencing memorandum for the judge, assistant circuit attorney Tanja Engelhard wrote: "What the defendant did to three of her own children far exceeds the definition of child abuse and amounts to systematic torture. She was supposed to be their mother, the one person they could trust. Instead she became a symbol of betrayal and fear, using every tool at her disposal to beat and torture her own innocent children," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. "According to prosecutors, interviews with the girls revealed prolonged abuse in which they had been waterboarded, whipped with electrical cords, forced into scalding or freezing showers, and beaten with an array of blunt objects," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch details. "Further investigation revealed significant scarring on all three of the women's children, prosecutors said, and even worse emotional trauma." Andrew Rui Stanley, the woman's husband, reportedly pleaded guilty last year to 42 felony counts on related charges. The 30-year-old was sentenced to 160 years in prison.
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- published: 19 Nov 2014
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