A St. Louis mom will spend the rest of her life in jail after authorities
say she tortured her children by waterboarding them and brutally beating them,
sometimes with baseball bats.
STLToday reports: A St. Louis woman was sentenced to 78 years in prison after admitting to
beating, whipping and waterboarding her children in a prolonged pattern of
abuse that prosecutors described as “systematic torture.”
Lakechia Schonta Stanley, 34, of St. Louis, faced 34 felonies, including
multiple counts of assault and endangering the welfare of a child, for the
abuse which was reported to a school librarian in October 2011.
One of the children, then 10 years old, had gone to school complaining of
severe pain in her arm.
Prosecutors say the girl revealed Stanley had beaten her with a baseball bat
because she had not cleaned the kitchen quickly enough.
The girl told the librarian that her sister, then age 8, was also beaten
with a bat because she had taken too long to shower.
When the librarian examined the girl’s arm she found it cold and hard to the
touch, according to prosecutors.
The girl was treated at the hospital, where it was determined that her arm
had been subjected to such trauma that the blood supply to the limb was
restricted.
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.
Further investigation revealed significant scarring on all three of the
women’s children, prosecutors said, and even worse emotional trauma.
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