Shekinah Akbar, 33, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her 5-year-old daughter, a crime that occurred on February 10, 2020.
At that time, the same mother was in charge of calling the emergency line, assuring that the neighbors had tortured them for hours and then locked them in the bathroom. Despite having been transferred to a nearby hospital, the doctors could not do anything for the girl’s life, detailed the American media. 11 Alive.
According to a statement from the Cobb County District Attorney’s office, the minor’s body had bite marks on the nose, cheek, neck, ear, chest, arms, legs and hands, for which the authorities began to investigate it as a case of child abuse.
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Later, during the interrogation, the same mother accepted that she had performed an exorcism on her daughter in order to expel “evil spirits” that possessed her. During her alleged ritual, she had hit and bit her, according to the aforementioned outlet.
In addition, they indicated that when Akbar was asked about the number of injuries the minor had, she assured that she had not hurt her that much, much less killed her. Also, she filed a plea of ”insanity” which she later changed to one of “extenuated guilty of mental illness,” she explained. Telemundo.
Finally, after investigations, the judge sentenced her to life imprisonment for the crimes of homicide and cruelty against a minor in the first degree.
“This beautiful girl was brutally tortured, bitten and abused for over 12 hours by the only person in the world who is supposed to love her unconditionally and protect her at all costs.”, said senior prosecutor Stephanie Green in a statement, quoted by 11 Alive.
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