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A Missouri mother will spend 78 years in prison
for waterboarding her three children, and for
torturing them in several other ways. The St.
Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the woman, 34-
year-old Lakechia Stanley was sentenced on
Friday over 30 charges related to child abuse.
The crimes first came to light in
October 2011 when Stanley’s 10-year-
old daughter told her school
librarian that her arm was sore. The
girl said her mother had beaten her
with a baseball bat for not cleaning
the kitchen quickly enough. The
child also said her 8-year-old sister
had been beaten with a bat for
taking too long in the shower.
The child was taken to a hospital,
where doctors said her arm had been
beaten so badly that the blood
supply was restricted, making her
arm cold and hard to the touch.
Prosecutors described Stanley’s actions
as “systematic torture.”
More from the Post-Dispatch:
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. Further investigation
revealed significant scarring on all
three of the women’s children,
prosecutors said, and even worse
emotional trauma.
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