Hope they superglue her face to a wall in prison.

She was wrong. A punishment of losing her children, a hysterectomy and cutting off her right hand would seem a more appropriate punishment. A lot less cheaper for Society too.

can we glue the severed right hand to a wall, as a reminder?

WTH!!! With a sentence like that, they might as well just give her the death penalty. Then again there are those who would rather pay their taxes to support her life in prison.

I hope there is no future pity for this woman. Let her rot in solitary confinement.
What she did to that baby is unforgivable. I can't imagine what that baby went through. I wish I could afford to bring all these abused children into my home and shower them with love and happiness. This will be something that will forever traumatize that child.

Yes indeed. Oh, and BTW, yes, Elizabeth Escalona, you ARE a monster! Buh-bye, see ya in 99 years. Enjoy your time in prison, Ms. Escalona, you're gonna love it there.To quote the Rolling Stones ("Miss You"):

We're gonna come around at 12, with some Puerto Rican girls that's just DYING to meet you

And, they're dying to meet you so much, they just might be bearing gifts of super glue for you, somewhere out on the yard or in the laundry room.

99 years isn't long enough.

Im amazed she got so long. Normally judges are a lot less strict on women. But what she did really did make her a monster. It wasnt just super glue. She put her daughter in a coma. She should never be around children again. She is going to have a tough time in jail. Just like male prisoners tend to make child molesters lives a living hell, women prisoners hate women who abuse their children since many of them are mothers themselves.

Here's hoping she only makes it through a few years before Barbara (close enough to Bubba?) takes her out.

If you cant stand kids then why have them? it just makes no sense. 5 children and im sure by the first one she realized she hates them but just kept pushing them out and then complains about how hard it is. well im sure it was hard for the kids having a maniac for a mother and probably like 5 different deadbeat dads.

She'll be out in 5 years.... the system is broke....

Good. She should never be allowed to raise her children and she should never be permitted to have any others.

Soooo....a Crazy Clown man can rape a 12yr old girl in California and only get 10yrs, this mom in Texas gets 99yrs?! I wonder what the clown would get in Texas and the mom would get in California?

She get 5yrs probation looses custody of her kids, Homey da Clown gets Life without parol.

Justice system says : Rape in california, but dont BEAT ur Kids to death in Texas, beat them in California! -

Despite what she described as problems paying rent and other bills, Escalona admitted she was using marijuana about twice a day in the time before she attacked Jocelyn.

One of the reasons why marijuana should not be made legal.....

why is this bit&^ crying in this picture. maybe she needs to be glued to something;oh 99 years, I guess she will be glued to four walls. LMAO

I totally agree with you. And the sad thing is we don't know what else she did to this little girl. This is the only thing we know of right now. How horrible for that precious little angel. She didn't deserve that. God Bless her and all of her children and may they end up in good loving homes.♥

If the punishment should fit the crime, why do child molesters do an average time of one tenth of this sentence?

Yes agreed this is a monster but why is creative torture worse then the day-to-day average child molester crime?

Think about it.

FYI: I'm up for execution of all child molesters after the first time. No strikes, this is not baseball.

In many other states she would have gotten a pass. That should tell you how much these other states need to work on their sentencing protocols.

I can't believe the taxpayers are going to have to pay for her care for the rest of her life.

Rope + tree = economically sound justice.

Dear God, I feel so bad for that poor baby who was beaten so badly. I am sending up a prayer to you. Please, please take that baby under your wing and protect her. Please look after her siblings, and heal them all.

Enough comments on the mother. She is in jail. What can we do to help these babies?

Sounds like a lot of bible thumping freaks of nature forgot the idea of mercy.. 99 years really?? Yes she needs psychological treatment and some time in jail to think about what her life was about and to never be allowed to be anywhere near children but 99 years?? People do sick and evil things every day and get far less prison time.. More proof our legal system has far too many snags in it.. We are supposed to be an educated modern society that understands the issues of mental health..

This woman should be sterilized and not allowed to have any more children. She will probably not do anywhere near 99 years.

baby-pumping no good slut. she should be serving in a don't work, don't eat environment of hard labor. taxpayers will be feeding/boarding her for decades while also dealing with her illegitimate kids as well.

Wow, There sure is a lot of hatred in these posts. What that woman did to her children is unforgivable but to put her in jail for 99 years is unbelievable. Murderers get less time than that. She needs help not 99 years. Our society sure does have a mean streak doesn't it.

Wow, 99 years! Here in California we give murderers of babies (their girlfriends, of course) way less time than that. Anyway now is the time for someone to slip that monster a cyanide pill and tell her to "do the right thing."

And how many think that this was the only one of her children that she abused? This is the only one she was caught abusing IMHO.

This piece of trash got exactly what she deserves though I personaly would have thrown the switch on her myself for what she did.

Unhappy: so you're saying that the thousands of people who regularly drink beer, wine, or almond extract and beat their kids daily are ok because alcohol is legal? Or do you think it should be made illegal again so that we will have bathtub gin cut with antifreeze and people dying from that like there was during the first prohibition? You're argument makes no sense. I don't know many people who smoke weed, but they are all pretty mellow and not prone to beating people so I'm pretty sure her smoking would have made her LESS angry with the kids whereas alcohol tends to make people MORE angry when something gets their dander up, hence the death at the wedding party when a bunch of drunks had a knock down drag out over booze. I think you need to educate yourself a little more before posting.

Putting a child in a coma does not deserve 99 years it deserves 3, 2 to the chest and 1 to the head.

God help these poor children, may they never know this type of violence again.

A .45 caliber round would be even cheaper!

@gday67 - It actually costs more to put someone to death than life in prison, not because of materials used, but because of all the endless apeals and court hearings. On average, the cost of executing a prisoner is around $10 million. If this woman survives the entire 99 years in prison, it'll cost the tax payers just under $2 million. Is this screwed up? Yes it is!

I only wish that guy who raped that 12 year old girl got 99 years. I'm still pissed at that 10 year sentence. But that's our legal system for you!

Jackson is the only one here with common sense

Ten days until she's shipped out of prison on her back, in a box. Another child predator bites the dust, adios! Thankfully, she did not kill her daughter although she came good and close. For those who speak of rehabilitation or therapy and so on.........this skank kicked her then 2 year old child in the stomach. IMO she was trying to kill the child. She deserves every second of those 99 years!

I am in no way defending what this woman did, she is scum, but the sentence seems out of line with other sentences handed out for other crimes. I mean a person who kills a kid or sexually molests them gets less time than this. This sentence was more based on emotion than the law. Even the prosecution only asked for 45 years and the judge gave her more than double that. I have a feeling that after the media circus surrounding this case dies down the sentence will be quietly appealed and reduced by the appellate court. I would not be surprised if the sentence were reduced to 25 or 30 years on appeal.

I have never heard the excuse, that by smoking pot two times a day it makes you abuse your children. I have never seen anyone who smokes have anger or rage issues. Pot usually make you more mellow not beat and superglue a baby's hands to a wall. Good try defense team, but the jurors didn't buy it. The pot is not the big bad evil drug you tried to make it out to be. Maybe your client should have been buying birth control instead of weed.

I don't think she'll last long in prision, I feel for her in a way because she never had a chance herself and it just perpetuates with every generation.

I feel that she should have had her kids permanently taken away, a forced sterilization, a year or more Inpatient heavy duty therapy and then ordered never to come back to the city where her kids are.

I don't see how sitting in a cage on our dime will rehabilitate this woman.

No, I'm not a bleeding liberal. I believe strongly in the death penalty, but serial killers get 5 years on a plea bargain. I think emotions ran high in this court room and she probably was sentenced to more than she normally would be. It will be thrown out in appeal.

Like that POS Sandusky, she'll B out in 10 years; Sooner, if she can convince somebody that she's "cured".

I'll bet $5 that in a year (maybe 2) we'll B seeing a story about her getting knocked-up by some male prison "guard" or "worker".

99 years, just on paper I suppose. She won't even do half. There are so many things wrong with this case, and guess who ends up really paying for it. It wont be her.

Takes two to make babies. What is wrong with guys that pick this kind of woman? Can't they see what she is in any way, shape, or form?

I tell my son to be very careful when choosing a partner for they can make your life heaven or hell. I suggest that if she is ( observed over many years) treating him with kindness, honesty, and compassion, etc, she will most likely be a good wife and mother.

I'd say to make sure to expose your "future" wife to playgrounds or other places where children are to get a feel for her comments and energy around kids.

Bottom line, guys "Don't let your dick run your life," or you may end up with a woman like this as the mother of your child..."

Catastrophe all the way around for mother and children in this story. Heart-wrenching...

Gday,

I would normally agree but giving her the death penalty would have cost a lot more then paying for her room and board for the 30 years until she is available for parole. In order to save the state some money if I was the judge I would have offered her 10 years with the stipulation that she agree to give up all parental rights to all the children and agree to a full hysterectomy and in this case I would have the state pay for it. That would have drastically reduced the cost to the state. No more Child Welfare people taking up valuable time checking on her and with no chance to have any more kids then they would not have to check on her in the future.

I know a lot of this sounds like stuff the Nazi Party did to the Jews in Germany before WWII, but there really is some people that do not deserve to be parents.

ok she is a bad person, but she gets 99 yrs and that Sadinski guy only got 30....for 40+ counts....

no matter how she treated her kids, they will still love her and miss her and have a harder life than if they could have just helped the mom get treatment...these kids are going to be worse than her some day...they need their mom...a well mom.

The down sides to this. The children are with the grandmother that raised up this monster mom. Grandma is likely getting paid by the taxpayer to raise these kids with NO guarentee they won't continue to be abused. The taxpayer is going to be supporting this woman until she dies. Many murderers and pedophiles don't even get this long. Lot's of pedophiles even WALK. (which I witnessed in a courtroom in Oregon last month) 15 to 20 years with no parole and no contact with her kids, mandatory sterilization, drug and alcohol treatment, anger management, education and training while in prison, and then getting her placed in a job after to PAY back some of her costs would have made more sense to me.

Unhappy-1583758 wrote:

"One of the reasons why marijuana should not be made legal....."

you don't really believe that this is what caused her to beat her child do you ? really ??

what a stupid comment. go crawl back into the hole you came from and watch "refer madness" propaganda one more time.

Yeah Roadrunner: that's why we're in debt up to our wazoos because of the mental cases running around loose! They should ALL be eliminated! They are a nuisance to the normal populace.

RoadrunnerO

"Sounds like a lot of bible thumping freaks of nature forgot the idea of mercy.. 99 years really??"

Sounds like mercy to me, and it sounds like she got off easy. What she did to that child, a 99 years sentence can't take away. I personally could think of better things they could have done with her, than put her in jail. Just because other people do sick and evil things, and get less jail time (as you put it) doesn't excuse what they do. Put yourself in the child's shoe's. I am sure you would be understanding.

I dunno man. I seen (read) many boyfriends that killed their girlfriends kid for crying too long and get 25 yrs.

99yrs? Yeah, she did an absolutely terrible thing but 99yrs? As Gday67 above mentioned, might as well give her the death penalty. "And" it's cheaper on the tax payers.

In all honesty, I personally would take the death penalty over 99 yrs.

deweydan

She was wrong. A punishment of losing her children, a hysterectomy and cutting off her right hand would seem a more appropriate punishment. A lot less cheaper for Society too.

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Is Sharia Law already entering into our conciseness and values? Wow, talk about scary. I suspect that her sentence will be over-turned as excessive on appeal; although, she and parents like her, deserve more punishment and condemnation than they get from the courts... in most cases. And I do think sterilization should be an option as punishment for child abusers.

Take the child/children away and give her some time, but 99 years? Murderers get less than that every day. Glad Texas will be paying for that.

"And I do think sterilization should be an option as punishment for child abusers."

Here! Here!

♪♫Can I get a witness?♪♫

Unhappy-1583758

Despite what she described as problems paying rent and other bills, Escalona admitted she was using marijuana about twice a day in the time before she attacked Jocelyn.

One of the reasons why marijuana should not be made legal.....

I'd wager 10,000:1 if it had NOT been for the marijuana this wouldn't have been an abuse case, but a homicide instead. This woman has issues that go way beyond marijuana - deep seated rage problems. Mark my words, had it not been for the marijuana, she'd have beat that poor child to death instead.

Give it a rest!

I can't believe the taxpayers are going to have to pay for her care for the rest of her life.

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The tax-payer was already paying to feed this loser and all of her kids, and we will pay for her food for the rest of her life... whether she is in jail or walking the streets.

I am not upholding the actions these people have done, but in Ohio it seems that sentences are based on what has happened in the crime. A sexual predator who lets say is found guilty of fondling children are going to to get less time than a man who rapes and has sexual intercourse with a child. Also I believe they go on the age of the child. This woman, the person of all people a child should be able to trust, beat her, kicked her, glued her hands to a wall. This child was in a coma for gods sake. 99 years may be a outrageous sentence, but she didn't just rub on this child.

the rapist Mexican Clown that raped a 12 year old and left her for dead only got 10 years.

"The tax-payer was already paying to feed this loser and all of her kids, and we will pay for her food for the rest of her life... whether she is in jail or walking the streets."

"Walking the streets" (snicker). I'm guessing that's how she got the 5 kids 2 start with. :-P

I feel no pity for this unkind hearted.

Ok...this sentence is ridiculous!! Sandusky only got 30 years!! In other words, rape 20 young boys over a period of several years, you get 30 years. Glue the hands of a child on a wall and beat her, you get 99. WTF!

I'm sorry, not to excuse what she did, but this kind of foolishness is one of the problems I have with the justice system - where cruel and unusual punishment is handed down to people - particularly those of color for crimes that white people might just get slaps on the wrist for. I am almost certain if she were instead one of those white "teen moms" they might have gotten probation or some foolishness.

The little girl almost died. This could have ended up being a murder charge EASILY, I think the mother got a bit lucky on this one.

Parole is possible after 30 years. She'll be in her mid-50's then. She'll likely get out if she has behaved in prison. Fat chance of THAT happening, but if she keeps it together and gets out at that point...I'd say the punishment was just about right. With her gang and drug background, plus her relatively young age and temperament, I think she'll end up staying in prison for the rest of her life, but that's strictly up to her, as it should be.

I would agree that Sandusky didn't get anywhere near enough prison time for his crimes...but that doesn't mean this woman should be cut any slack in an entirely different state. Sandusky will die in prison anyway. This chick may not. Again, that's in her own hands, more than likely.

gday67, execution actually costs more than imprisonment...

Glad you know your facts and what tax payers are supporting.

There's atrocities like this going on everyday, worse and unreported. What happens when all of you get caught, because guess what... in many ways, you're just as guilty as she is. And when we're called in for jury for the attorneys to paint a negative view of your life and everything you've done, we WILL find you guilty without blinking an eye, no matter how cute your avatar is. Long live America, home of corporate jails, greedy lawyers, and the vindictive public who projects their anguish on the popular whipping boy of the day!

But this woman will only be 122 years old when she gets out of the slammer. I think the sentence was too light! She's just mean enough to live that long. It's only the good who die young.

She gets 99 years but Sandusky only gets 30-60 years?

I have no idea why keeping this Women in the prison system for 99 years or whatever she ends up serving is practical. Put her in jail for 3 years, take her kids away from her with no chance at custody and treat her like a sex offender. Wasting hundred a gazillion dollars sustaining this women is jail is stupid.

Personally 99 might be to long but the biggest thing gets me is how our system can be so varied and other crimes that are worse or equally as bad see less time. Just further issues with our justice system and just another on the list of overall issues our country faces yet those elected (bought in many cases) don't solve.

Back to the 99 part, part of me does think maybe this is a little to long but it does go beyond the gluing the hands together as sadly that wasn't the worst part, she beat the crap out of the kid, not even with her own to hands but other objects no less, and put her in a coma. That's what gets me so I think as for her case 99 maybe a little long but 45, don't know if that is long enough either. Then there is part of me that think this scumbag should just get a lead shot and save us all the cost. Either way at least the kids will hopefully not be abused anymore so there is hope there, but otherwise the kids now no longer have a mother (loosely call her that) and will likely be paid for by the TP'ers (probably already were to an extent) and possibly carry on these issues into the next generation as well as this POS will get further supported by the TP'ers.

Again biggest take away, we have a system that is badly broken.

Best wishes though to the family and I hope they can rise up from this someway and hope that little girl gets better.

It is time

Personally 99 might be to long but the biggest thing gets me is how our system can be so varied and other crimes that are worse or equally as bad see less time. Just further issues with our justice system and just another on the list of overall issues our country faces yet those elected (bought in many cases) don't solve.

Back to the 99 part, part of me does think maybe this is a little to long but it does go beyond the gluing the hands together as sadly that wasn't the worst part, she beat the crap out of the kid, not even with her own to hands but other objects no less, and put her in a coma. That's what gets me so I think as for her case 99 maybe a little long but 45, don't know if that is long enough either. Then there is part of me that think this scumbag should just get a lead shot and save us all the cost. Either way at least the kids will hopefully not be abused anymore so there is hope there, but otherwise the kids now no longer have a mother (loosely call her that) and will likely be paid for by the TP'ers (probably already were to an extent) and possibly carry on these issues into the next generation as well as this POS will get further supported by the TP'ers.

Again biggest take away, we have a system that is badly broken.

Best wishes though to the family and I hope they can rise up from this someway and hope that little girl gets better.

It is time

Looks like she had a ton of anchor babies that were good for the govt money and benefits she was able to get but she found out its tough to raise kids when all she ever wanted was the money!

Well so much for the charity of the human soul. 99 years is excessive, no matter how you feel you have to be rational. To react such as in this case is just as bad as stoning a woman like they do in a different society. No way to put it simply, mob rule has no place in our courts.

Emanuel,

"I am almost certain if she were instead one of those white "teen moms" they might have gotten probation or some foolishness."

I "really" doubt it however, can't blame you either.

Have a nice weekend

@SashaFem,

*sigh

Get help.

Were the father(s) in the courtroom, and did they step up and take responsibility for the children they brought into the world, or is it, yet again, the taxpayers' obligation? Dream on, dream on. . .

@gridlock2307416..."Thank God the Devil never tricked me to live in Texas" given your bigoted attitude, there are those of us who are equally glad that you d o n' t!

This has nothing to do with Sandusky. Different case, different state, different confession (this case had one, for starters). I wish you fine folks making that comparison would come off it. Whatever happened to Sandusky, and why, has nothing to do with child-beating in Texas. If you think the laws are unfair where you live, move to where you think they are better. Simple as that.

99 years seems really really harsh to me .... she committed a bad offense and should be removed from children ... but really .... 99 years ? We give child murderer's the same sentence ... doesn't add up to my way of thinking

I understand you BLS-if she had murdered the kid it would have been 25 years. She is a sick and very disturbed person, she should never be a parent or see those kids again. But society failed her, we've allowed drugs to become a part of our culture, we aren't tough enough on first offenders, we don't or can't provide re-hab for these mentally ill children, nobody rescued her during her childhood (her Mom should be behind bars). It's a sad story for everybody, but 99 years (which means life) in prison only covers up the problem.

No excuses for mom, her actions were deplorable. A 99 year sentence? Give her some jail time for sure but not sure how that cures the other issues she's got. Where are the fathers of these children? One poster claims the fathers should have been more careful than to chose a woman like this to have kids with but I'm left wondering what the hell kind of men were these to begin with when they knock up a lady with kids and leave her to fend for herself? Then you've got the mother of this woman claiming she wishes she could have done more to help her daughter? This whole situation was a recipe for disaster.

Yup, 23 years old with 5 kids pretty much says it all. And how much federal/state welfare and freebies (read: taxpayer dollars) has this woman and her kids already sucked up? How much will they continue to suck up? How much will she cost taxpayers for her prison time? (and yes, I agree she deserves prison and to have her kids taken away.)

As a taxpayer who pays a hefty amount of taxes, I'm just beyond sick and tired of paying for people like her.

23-year-old mother of five!

That's the first problem right there that started this cycle of abuse.

BIRTH CONTROL PEOPLE!

I wonder if she cried over the her broken child the way she cried for her loss of freedom.

On the marijuana comments, perhaps we need to consider that if she had not been high all the time (taking "needed" break from parenting) the child who was savagely beaten would not have been peeing and poohing all over the place, and mommy dearest would not have flowing into a rage. The marijuana use is not to blame for the behavior during the beating, but rather indicative of her total lack of self-control in the first place. She was checking out as a parent long before the beating occurred. The question is, is the pot itself responsible for her checking out or is her checking out responsible for her smoking pot? We as a society have to determine is the pot smoking causing the inability to handle daily life or is the inability to handle daily life causing the pot smoking? For the record, I don't believe all people who drink alcohol occasionally are alcoholics just as all people who smoke pot occasionally are not pot addicts, however all people (of age) who drink alcohol are acting within the law while all people (without prescription in certain areas) who smoke pot are acting outside of the law, therefore their use of pot shows a disregard for societal expectations at the very least, which speaks to their character.

23 years old with 5 children. Hasn't she ever heard of birth control, or even better - keeping your legs shut?

Take that you sick pig. Hope you get special visits everyday in the can, you dirty whore bag.

And on another note.......it is refreshing to come here and see conservatives and liberals actually coming to some common ground on something. Cheers.

Puta barata... She deserves to spend the next 99 years with someone beating her the way she beat her daughter, while her hands are glued to the prison walls.

99 years for this? Wow this horrible. She deserves a max of 1 or 2 years in prison for this case. Sex offenders dont even get this much. I hope she wins the appeal cause this is crap. What she did to her own child was horrible and wrong but its not worth 99 years. I in no mean is saying that children being treated like that is ok. Its not ok but the judge in this case gotta go.

Such advanced and educated people here sounding like the Islamists and their backward knuckle dragging sense of justice.. Why not just have skipped the trial and stone her to death..

Well, the sentence length is excessive, but I agree with other posters.

Take her children from her and god help them to get better homes. And keep her in prison long enough that she will be through menopause when she gets out of prison and give her LOTS of therapy in prison (if that's even possible.)

Also, let's not forget this woman was a horribly abused child herself, just like the little two year old we feel so sorry for. And yes, even though she looks like a grown woman on the stand, in actuality she is just a little abused girl herself.

@aquatone,

I'm gonna try & help U understand.

She was CONVICTED of beating 1 child & got 99 years; Sandusky was CONVICTED of raping multiple children, over multiple decades & got 30-60 years.

Beating 1 child=99 years.

Raping multiply children=30-60 years.

It's outrageous.

I hopes that helps.

In case people are worried about paying for her incarceration, I am sure we were supporting her with welfare, food stamps, medicaid. Now the children will hopefully live in a loving, stable environment.

CoRavensFan,

I agree but she is hispanic. Alot of them do not believe in birth control. Not to mention they know how to work our system. The more kids the more tax payer dollars in your pocket. Not trying to sound like a racist so everyone settle down. Just pointing out a fact.

Also, I hope the womens prisions are like the male where they beat the piss out of child beaters and rapists. Anyone know for sure?

To all you who think 99 years is excessive. Relax! She won't be there that long. She'll get out on good behavior, go about her life and move on. Her children, however, will be living with the memories of what their mother did to them for the next 99 years.

People get less time for killing, while the emotional part of me wants her to suffer those consequences, I think putting her in prison until she is past child bearing years would be sufficient.

Justice is suppose to be both prevention of future crimes and punitive. Does putting someone in prison for that long really equal justice?

@Menoseeno,

*sigh

Get help.

I see alot of people now coming out saying the sentence was excesive. Maybe but she damn near killed her kid. And for those comparing this to Sandusky you are missing one very important point.....Sandiksky was a well known person from a Big Ten college. Did you really think they were going to put the guy away for life? No way, not how it works in this country. If you have money and some fame you get a slap on the wrist.

I have a great idea. Why not put San@!$%#sky and Espanola in the same cell?

ok I'll be the jerk who says it. Be honest. How many of you have fantasized or threatened to do something like that to your kids when they are misbehaving? Just sayin.... (and no I am not condoning anything this woman did and yes she deserves prison.)

Menoseeno,

I'm guessing, you're 16 yrs old. right?! Take "You Don't Pays" advice. You do need help little guy. Leave the comments to the mature people and go watch your cartoon programs and be a nice little boy ok?!

Oh,......and you'll be collapsed in no time.

Have a nice day...

CD

Here's how we prevent things like this:

Comprehensive sex ed starting in Jr. high, with refresher courses yearly.

Free birth control for all who want it.

Free sterilization for all who want it (male or female).

Required long-term birth control for anyone who wants government assistance.

She could have said that the fumes got to her and she saw "Santa Muerta" the angel of death or Jesus Malverde, patron saint of drug pushers.

Randy,

I have a two year old daughter that drives me f-cking nuts some times when she is whining and not listening. But I have never once thought of hitting her and gluing her hands to the wall and beating her senseless. And she calms me down the second she smiles at me, I highly doubt this wonder mom had that feeling of unconditional love like most parents do. So no I dont agree with. You may need some help champ.

Sounds like she's already had a wonderful life, 99 years is really going to fix that.

We do not have a justice system; we have a legal system. This why people who commit assault are sometimes given longer sentences than people who commit murders, it is also why one person will get three years for killing their child and another gets ninety nine years for a horrible assault. I am not saying I don't think she deserved a harsh sentence, just that our legal system needs overhauling.

We also need laws to protect children from going through this. We need to make people get licenses for having children; to help weed out alcoholics, drug abusers, pedophiles, teen and (career welfare) mamas. If you cut off welfare and put children up for adoption or in group homes, we would see a decrease in these kind of cases.

to randy12345 I had four kids and I never fantasized about beating or gluing their body parts to a wall. Sure, I got frustrated especially when potty training, but I used my brain to find a way to get them to use the potty, not my fists!!

There must be a private for profit prison that needs its cells filled why they are giving these long sentences. This woman has issues, but to lock her away till she is 120 years old is simply stupid. The only people who are getting anything out of this is the prison system costing the tax payers at least 30 thousand dollars per year for her incarceration and care.

The cost for her care will no doubt increase when she is way older and no doubt demented from being locked up for so long, and by which time may even be suffering from senile dementia, alsheimers etc. What would this 23 y/o have contributed to society to make amends for what she did? How is she going to support her children who now will be wards of the state to also be costing the tax payers for their care also?

Imagine spending ...99y x$30,000= $2,970,000.00 that will be at least 3 million dollars if not more, and for what? Revenge? How does this help anyone?

When will this country wise up and realize that we are simply wasting money incarcerating people for punishment only and not doing rehabiliation so the person can be a contributing member of society? What if a fraction of that money was used to train this woman for a job, and put her children in day care etc while she was in training?

This rediculous action by the judge is nothing new, it is Texas after all. Isn't this the very State where they have defunded Planned Parenthood and underfunded Medicaid and where womens health is not a priority especially if she is poor? Weren't that one of the states where they are not going to enact the ACA, so this woman will/would not have any access to affordable birthcontrol? Aren't they against birthcontrol i.e. anti-reproductive rights/choice anyway?

Isn't this the State where abstainance only is taught in schools -as a means of pregnancy prevention- if anything is taught at all? Isn't this the state where the polititians have the same beliefs as that polititian Akins and other T'republiconservas with his women don't get pregnant from rape beliefs, and where if the woman does 'not enjoy the sex' she will not get pregnant?

Isn't this the State where they keep touting about all those jobs that are being or were created..... only problem is that these jobs pay less than minimum wage if I am not mistaken...LOL Think she would have been paid or would have earned 30thousand dollars per year? The prison system will be earning that 30thousand plus dollars per year though for the next 99 years. LOL

The woman needed psychological/mental health care help. It would have been better if she was got a couple of years in jail during which time she received the help she needed to become a productive member of society, and then several years of probation and in which she is required to work and pay child support for her children even if they are not in her care.

But then what new.. The same ignorance occurred in Florida where that mother 'stood her ground' against her abusive husband and discharged the gun into the drywall and she is locked up for 20+ years leaving her children including a baby in the care of her abuser husband. That is the level of justice that this country's judicial system seem to be or is dishing out these days.

Talk about a system that is becoming a joke, where if you have money for a high priced lawyer/legal team freedom is yours, but the poor are simply fodder to make money off of, to fill those beds in the for-profit prison system.

Let's raise our voice in cheer........ Here's to rabid, pernicious capitalism, religiousity, justice.... aren't they grand.... Yeah.....(sarcasm)

Peace.......love..... charity......blah blah blah....

Whatevva ....

inmissouri,

There is no such thing as free, just like there's no such thing as equal or fair.

Comprehensive sex ed in Jr high is much too late. Children in middle school are doing it these days because sex is prevalent in our society. Every opportunity I get I remind my kids to use condoms (only one of them has ever been close to sexually active, and the girl did a number on his heart so he may never go back again, but I digress), they constantly hear about how every person they sleep with, the are essentially sleeping with everyone they've slept with and they've slept with and so on, and that birth control isn't enough because there are so many diseases out there, and that the right to choose happens at the point at which you decide to have sex not later so they should only sleep with people they wouldn't mind creating a person with and then ONLY with protection until they are actually ready to have children... and then be willing to have the accident, because accidents do happen. The problem is it isn't the system's job to teach our children about the realities of life, and too many people think the system has it covered or that their kids somehow know better. How many things have your children done that you've thought "they should know better"--KIDS DON'T KNOW BETTER! They learn sometimes by being taught and sometimes by experiencing themselves, and we as parents can only hope that we teach them enough that the things they choose to experience themselves don't kill them.

There really is plenty of "free" birth control available to those who want it. The irresponsible people don't bother in the first place, so we could offer all of the "free" birth control in the world, and it still wouldn't stop these problems. Requiring long-term birth control for anyone who wants government assistance sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately you can't guarantee a person actually uses the birth control, unless you inject them, and that would open up a slew of litigation for violation of personal rights (if the government can't dictate what a woman does with her own body in order to stop abortion--the killing of a whole other person--then a government can't dictate that a woman use birth control).

"I used my brain to find a way to get them to use the potty"

Thank you, blondeness. I know this is off-topic but after listening 2 my mother (B4 she passed) describe her method, I have often wondered Y peeps have such a problem with potty training.

My mothers method was 2 take the child into the bathroom, sit them on the toilet, tell them 2 "potty", wait 4 it, when they tinkle-praise them, wipe them, get them off the toilet. Repeat evey hour on the hour.

They'll B trained within a week. At least, it worked 4 her; And she had 4 of us.

Roadrunner0

Sounds like a lot of bible thumping freaks of nature forgot the idea of mercy.. 99 years really?? Yes she needs psychological treatment and some time in jail to think about what her life was about and to never be allowed to be anywhere near children but 99 years?? People do sick and evil things every day and get far less prison time.. More proof our legal system has far too many snags in it.. We are supposed to be an educated modern society that understands the issues of mental health..

Roadrunner at first I thought the same thing but then....Ok she has 5 kids, money is very tight, a ton of stress, lots of hard work and frustration with that many kids, potty training can be stressful with one kid.......Ok so I could maybe understand you get frustrated maybe the child starts misbehaving you are at the end of your rope and you strike the child in frustration and impulse. Ok Yes I could maybe understand that scenario but then I started thinking.....Ok this woman had to go look for the glue, I'm sure it wasn't right there by her hand, then she had to find the little girl who was prob hiding, then she had to smear the glue onto her hands,, then put them against the wall wait for it to dry.....ok in my mind, this is more then enough time to get control of your anger and emotions and start thinking, what the hell am I doing, I'm losing it, and put the child in crib and go outside and take some deep breaths. She had time for that initial out of your mind rage to start passing. It isn't like a passion killing where you are sooooo angry you pick up a gun and just fire without thinking it through. We have all flown off the handle and do things we regret, but as i said she had some time for it to start sinking in what she was doing. This is what makes her a monster she had time to think about it, and she went through with it anyway.

As bad as a person she is does she deserve 99 years? I mean - you can kill a person and get less of a sentence...I think that legal reform is more important then healthcare reform - it is true that judges are creating and playing by their own rules...

Damn I mean damn are there some dumb people... I guess no one knows that states like Texas set their own laws and penalties. There is not one standard across the board unless it is a Federal offense. If it is not a Federal case then it is the state's job.

For all the people saying well in California so and so gets X amount of time, or Sandusky in Pennsylvania got Y amount of time it means jack chit since this was in Texas. Why not look and see what Texas does to people that rape and murder its citizens? What did they do to Humberto Leal Garcia again? Did they not kill him even though he was a Mexican citizen and should have been tried in Mexico according to our laws and treaties? What did he do? What was his crime? Has he been the only one in Texas that got this same penalty? They voted for it ask them why their laws are so stiff, I do not live there.

Her hands need to be glued to a wall permanently--either for the 99 years in prison OR if (unfortunately for society) if gets out after a few years.

Her looking upset in that picture is a pathetic but good act. Obviously, she's only upset because she got caught.

Sandusky is about 70; think he lasts another 30 years? She is in her early twenties...same affect in the end.

I disagree.

Putting her in prison for the rest of her life at $50,000 per year?

On the backs of taxpayers?

Are you guys serious?

You're part of the reason we're going broke.

She should lose her children, and be fined, from her wages, for the rest of her life to care for the child as it grows up in a loving family.

THAT would be justice.

But if you want to borrow money from China to lock her up, you do that on your own debt.

I think it's a waste.

I am almost certain if she were instead one of those white "teen moms" they might have gotten probation or some foolishness.

Yes, Emanuel, because the justice system cares more about black children than about white children. They're sending a message loud and clear - if you have black children, you had better not try to kill them! Know how I know? O.J. The same justice system lets black men get away with murdering white women.

peteMT:

I agree TOTALLY!

She could be put to good use as a speed bump on an expressway.

lu- 'free' as in a taxpayer-funded program. While it might cost a bit to get started, we'd get saving pretty quickly in fewer kids being born into a life of government assistance.

Middle school sounds fine to me for education, but some states don't want any at all, and even high school would be a hard sell. They think if they cover their eyes and say 'neener neener neener' that teens won't have sex (it's that thinking that caused my mom to become pregnant with me).

As for the woman's rights- she'd have the right not to apply for government assistance if she didn't like the rules involved. It's not the same as trying to make abortion illegal, or almost illegal. I'd want to go for IUD's or implants in that case- it's impossible to accidently mess it up, and they last for 3-10 years.

I grew up in a home with a mother like this. While at her funeral I was having a difficult time showing emotion to suit the occasion of her passing because I suddenly felt safe for the first time in my life. I searched my thoughts for any reason to be sad so others who were looking would not think I had a cold heart. Then it came to me, the thought that this woman in this casket had stolen from me the right to mourn a mothers passing. With this she hurt me, just one last time, and with that thought I wept uncontrollably.

I'm calling gender discrimination on this one. A woman beats her kid and gets 99 years, but a pervert who repeatedly sexually molested 10 other people's children (Sandusky) gets 30 to 60 years??

There are men who have killed their own children who haven't even gotten 19 years, let alone 99!

This is a perfect example of why our country needs a standard by which to sentence felons. Why does one person get 5 years for rape, while someone else gets 25? I know the nature of the crime should play a part, but come on...such huge differences in sentences are ridiculous. It shouldn't be based on one judge's whim...or the felon's race or gender.

This is a bizarre sentence. America will be broke long before this sentence is finished, largely because we are completely irresponsible when it comes to spending. This sentence is the same sentence given to most murderers in Texas. I could see a sentence of 5-15 years myself, with parole based on behavior inside the institution. I can not possibly see spending upwards of $5 million to protect the rest of us indefinitely from a single woman who didn't make a great mother. What she did deserves to be punished, but I can't possibly see destroying her life over it either.

We can't possibly afford to continue inflicting prison sentences like these, as they will eventually bankrupt us. Imagine how many less-fortunate young people that $5 million could have sent to college instead, which would then result in much-greater levels of productivity and taxes paid as well? Basically this sentence cuts the throats of 500 young people who could have gone to college instead!

I think that perhaps this judge could use some time in prison to reflect on what is important to all of us instead!

This sentence is so healing! Two things happened today: Escalona learned something positive in her life, to not abuse children, period. She can take that to her next life! And her children will be able to heal and have their therapy in peace, without the fear she might show up at their doorstep ever again. That's one face they don't need to see for the rest of their lives. If Escalona gets to survive jail, by the time she gets out the children will be adults. They won't have to deal with her.

I only hope DCF will be monitoring those kids for several years!

gridlock-2307416 said.....

"Thank God the Devil never tricked me to live in Texas."

Texas is a great place to live and raise a family. There are crazy people like this in EVERY state you moron! How dare you equate living in Texas as being something that the Devil tricks us into!!

AKelsey,

I see what you are saying but the same argument can be made when a mother kills her childred and gets a few years in a mental hospital where a dad will get consecutive life sentences. The justice system has many many holes. But I really dont feel bad for this broad and I think Sandushky should have gotten more but I made a point earlier about his sentencing. Not to mention Ol Jerry will be dead in a few years, God willing.

As for taxpayers money used to support her for 99 years, that's ok for me, money well spent.

I hope we will continue to raise Zero Tolerance to child abuse. Children are our future society, our future law makers, our future doctors and nurses who will take care of us when we grow old. Let's raise them in a well balanced state of mind.

And where was the father of the child?

Especially the father that got her pregnant when she was 14. Shouldn't the dads have any responsibility for the children they fathered?

Simple answer for the draconian sentence: Prisons for Profit

Too bad the largely sadistic, scapegoat seeking public not only don't really notice they like it...until they find themselves being prosecuted for what wasn't a crime last year.

40,000 New Laws in 2012:

msnbc.msn.com/id/45819570/ns/us_news-life/t/new-laws-toughen-rules-abortions-immigrants-voters/

Two radically different sources about the evils of Prisons for Profit:

cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/May/Nation-of-Criminals-Selling-Prisons-for-Profit/

commondreams.org/view/2012/04/25-7

Maxwell,

Watch the Maury show, if you sleep with 20 guys around the same time, you probably dont know which one the dad is. Way to blame a guy for the mom's mistake though.

And for the bleeding hearts out there. Way to make the woman a victim. Knew that was coming. Her sentence was long because it was in Texas. They dont take child abuse lightly. The clown was in California when he raped the girl. Thats why he just got 10. Probably would have been life in Texas. Doesnt simple logic make everything seem a bit clearer?

This frikin bitch has 5 kids at 23 years old. This is in the culture of the Mexican people. but SSSSOOOO many damn kids and no tolls to take care of them. 99 years should have been life. She will be out in 30 years

There must be a private for profit prison that needs its cells filled

There is definitely some truth in that. Run a search for "Prisons for Profits" on Google.. I think you'll find it most fascinating what's been done with the American prison system. And yes, in some cases the agreement with the government is that they will actually keep these for-profit incarceration centers full by a certain percentage - something like 80% (I can't be too sure and am too lazy to look it up mahsef).

Makes you feel Realllly comfortable about the whole thing now, doesn't it?

That having been said, this is another sad, sad situation, where someone who is mentally ill will get tortured rather than punished. (And before anyone goes spouting off,,,

YES, HELL YES, she should be locked up forever.. she carries absolutely NO redeeming social value whatsoever.

In fact, in this case it would probably be best to just put her in a large tank with a bucket.. a slot for food to enter and for trash to leave - and a gun with one bullet.

I think she should run as a Democrat representative for Congress. She matches Pelosi and the others on the way they treat their servants, the American people.

jac-931625

Yup, 23 years old with 5 kids pretty much says it all. And how much federal/state welfare and freebies (read: taxpayer dollars) has this woman and her kids already sucked up? How much will they continue to suck up? How much will she cost taxpayers for her prison time? (and yes, I agree she deserves prison and to have her kids taken away.)

As a taxpayer who pays a hefty amount of taxes, I'm just beyond sick and tired of paying for people like her.

Oddly enough...

Usually it Republicans who will be the first out of the gate to say, "I'm sick and tired of paying for stay at home Welfare Moms with my taxes". And then on their next breath say, "Abortion is murder, and we should outlaw the practice".

Frankly the two viewpoints don't jive.

If you want 14, 15, 16 year old girls to be forced to carry their boyfriend's seed to fruition, you gotta expect some pretty immature parenting to go on.

Yeah... Christian Evangelical Republican Southerners and Middle-Westerners... Interesting lot...

"All babies deserve to live - It's a baby at the moment of conception". Right on. Glad you guys are so cool with children. Would you mind if we drop about 5 or 10 inner city children or children who's parents are too poor to raise them at your house?

Frankly, this nitwit should not have been having babies at the age of 14. If she got pregnant, her parents should have immediately poured "morning after" pills down her gullet. Soon as she irresponsibly got pregnant a second time with no means to care for her children, she should have been sterilized.

There. No traumatized children. No woman in trouble for traumatizing children she shouldn't have had in the first place.

C'mon Technology, help us out here. Can't we make all children sterile via some piece of genetic coding that can only be repaired once a person reaches adulthood, maturity, shows financial independence AND can pass a Parenting class? ONLY THEN will we turn back on their genetic strand of code that allows them to procreate.

That really would be the best solution overall. Wouldn't it?

I have practiced criminal law for almost 35 years, have handled many cases involving child abuse, including beatings with a small broom, a baseball bat, a metal object, one case involving burning a child's flesh, and no one I have ever represented, whether father or mother, has ever received a double-digit sentence. Most of the time, mothers get some jail time and a lot of counseling for the underlying problems that contributed to her cruelty. 99 years is utterly outrageous for what this woman did.

Texas is and has always been an anomaly both in the administration of the death penalty and in meting out punishment. Texas kills more of its citizens than many countries that still have the death penalty. Texas' sentences for criminal misconduct are higher than any other state. If some sentences can properly be described as draconian, most of them are meted out in Texas.

To understand Texas, one only needs to consider its two recent double-term governors, Bush and Perry, utterly embarrassing idiots who were folksy enough to be elected by easily charmed Texans. Bush has been America's worst president by far, and Perry has always been an obvious intellectual fraud. It's no surprise that Texas is ranked absolutely last in the percentage of high school graduates among the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Texas likes to congratulate itself by claiming that it has withstood the Great Recession and has had the highest job growth rate in the country since it's outset. Texans don't dwell much on the fact that a majority of those new jobs are minimum wage jobs that allow families like Kevin's to wallow in poverty, leaving just enough money to head down to the local gun shop and buy some guns and rifles so they can be macho defenders of freedom, liberty, and the American way. Throw in a couple of six packs, a Stetson, and a pickup truck, and out comes the quintessential Texan at the other end--a beer swilling, Marlboro man driving a pickup truck with a rifle prominently displayed.

And to those who whine about paying taxes for incarceration, this reminds me of a speech on tax evasion given by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on June 1, 1937:

"Mr. Justice (Oliver Wendell) Holmes said 'Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.' Too many individuals, however, want the civilization at a discount."

Finally, to those who believe that the death penalty is less costly than incarcerating convicted defendants, the death penalty can only be exacted in murder cases. No one died in this case, so the death penalty could not be imposed. Second, the taking of an inmate's life cannot be predicated solely on the cost of incarcerating him. Setting aside the 8th Amendment for the moment, the moral implications of such a policy are stunning; for example, how long must a sentence be before it becomes too costly to incarcerate a convicted person?"

P.S.--the cost of litigating a death penalty case exceeds a million of dollars in most cases, far more than the cost of incarcerating murderers for the rest of their lives. Everything from investigative expenses to jury selection to actual incarceration are higher for DP cases: E.g., "A study of the death penalty in California in 2011 showed that the cost of housing a death-row inmate was $100,000 per year more than the cost of housing someone sentenced to life without parole." In fact, struggling states are largely relying on the cost of the death penalty as justification for its elimination in states like California and Montana.

Oh, please. In 1978, Lawrence Singleton raped and cut the arms off of a 15 year old hitchhiker. She survived and he was paroled after only 8 years in prison. You all tell me, does the punishment fit the crime in this case. She would have gotten less time if she would have killed the daughter in a fit of rage.

As much as I think this woman IS a monster, and should be punished for what she did, 99 years is way out of line. Not only will it be an extreme burden on tax payers, you have no end game here. What is the point in a basically life sentence for a 20 year old? They will NEVER be rehabilitated with a sentence like that. I understand why the death penalty shouldn't apply in a case like this, but this sentence serves no point other than to show the disgust of the judge.

As stated, rapists and murders get far lighter sentences, and in most cases the point is to not just punish, but to have a punishment so severe that they will never break the law again. Whether or not it is possible to fix a criminal again, that is how the system is set up. I don't know which is worse, paying to imprison someone who can't be fixed or letting someone out early because some parole board says he is fixed.

This woman should have had her kids taken away from her without any ability to ever see them again. Then she should have been sentenced to a mental facility until such time as she is deemed fit to be a human being again. Then once her mind is right and she knows EXACTLY what her actions have done, she should serve about 10-20 years in prison for her actions. She needs to know, 100%, that it is HER fault for ending up where she is, not the drugs, not some mental problem, not her kids, but because SHE did something very wrong. As it stands now she will probably retreat further into her craziness and never come out, never fully realizing what she did to her children and why she is in jail the rest of her life. Fix her mind first, then hit her with the punishment. By the time her sentence is over, if she even lives to finish it, she will never touch or even look sideways at a child again. And the taxpayers would save millions that could be used to punish the rapists and murderers..

99 years is a bit extreme for such punishment. People who murder other people get off in 10 years or so depending on circumstance, state, ect ect . Even a 20 year sentence to me is harsh. There can be more accomplished then our tax paying dollars going to paying for the rest of her life in prison.

99 years in a prison that does not one single thing to rehab the people that go there and does EVERYTHING TO TEACH THEM NEW CRIMINAL TECHNIQUES! All the while grinding in their face the glaring fact that equal treatment under the law is a bold faced lie and guilt or innocence is irrelevant as cops and prosecutors are in bed together and will stop at nothing to convict any and all that fall within their cross hairs!!! Prison makes zero attempt at stopping or reducing crime, it only guarantee's that there will be more of it!! Like it or not, it is a fact!

The USA is the laughing stock of the world at how many people we lock up and the majority of them for crimes that HAVE HURT NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON IF EVEN THE OFFENDER! Makes sense, especially when you have corporations who's sole existence is reliant on the incarceration of adult and juvenile felons (felons who have broken laws that THE OWNERS OF THE PRIVATE PRISONS HAVE HELPED WRITE i:e the wonderful unconstitutional Arizona immigration law) they are writing their newest avenue of profits, at your expense (Mitt Romney pays no taxes so he could care less, besides he is planning on shipping any and all of the jobs he can to Antartica so native Dung beetles will have something to do for .03 cents per month, what he believes prevailing wage should be) and it is hilarious to watch people bicker over something that costs pennies in comparison to the cost of keeping a prisoner for a year!! Go America!!!

Unhappy: so you're saying that the thousands of people who regularly drink beer, wine, or almond extract and beat their kids daily are ok because alcohol is legal? Or do you think it should be made illegal again so that we will have bathtub gin cut with antifreeze and people dying from that like there was during the first prohibition?

USAGI-SENSAI: I never said any such thing.....What's common among people who regularly drink wine, beer, or almond extract is that they are not considered hallucinogenic drugs. MARIJUANA IS A HALLUCINOGENIC DRUG. The fact that she was smoking it twice per day up until the time she beat her kid is one of the reasons, why you shouldn't make it legal. Cocaine CAN be a hallucinogenic drug as well..... Does it mean that it should be legal.

Stop thinking that people are the same everywhere and that where taking one drug can have no effect, someone with a different nervous system can have the opposite.

Should she be punished? does it fix anything? the only thing the society should be concerned with, is keeping her from doing things like this again. You cannot punish the insane. they create their own reality. Charles Manson believes he is on a mission to help the devil. You can only isolate them. the woman is dangerous, but she punished herself long ago. I hope god reads all of your posts.

They could have just gave her two weeks in a men's prison with her hands and feet clued to the floor.

You know, When I first read this story, I was enraged! My first thought was death penelty! Torture her like she did that little child! But, after I head time to reflect, I don't believe 99 years or death or torture is the answer. Now I'm going out on a limb here, but wouldn't it be real justice to #1, have her spayed. #2, never allow her to be around children, "particularly her own children" #3, have her spend a more apropriate amount of time in prison. And #4, during the time she is incarcerated, she attend anger managment, and she also should be evaluated sychologically. Obviously she needs some kind of help, but definately she deserves to be punished! 99 years? I think it is too over the top.

This sentence is ridiculous. Murderers don't get 99 years. Media spotlighting your case and sensationalizing it gets you 99 years. Justice was not served here. This lady does deserve to be punished... but 99 years is a knee-jerk reaction sentence to please the public. It's child abuse. Plain and simple child abuse, possible assault, maybe even attempted murder. THOSE CRIMES DO NOT COME WITH A 99 YEAR SENTENCE.

Mike Schmidt,I agree that justice hasn't been served.She should be sentenced to hard labor until she drops dead.That would be justice served.Beating a small child thy way that she did and in front of the other children is sick and barbaric.She deserves no break and sympathy.She's only shedding tears because she got caught and has to pay the price.Potty training a child,holding down a job is so much easier than spending life in prison but she wanted the easy life.You reap what you sow.

unhappy pot dont make you do this she has too be on something else raid fridge yes beat your kids no laugh yes glue your kids hands too wall no she had 5 kids before 23 and hanging with gangs really and you think pot did it too her you sound like the wacky weed movie from the 50s it dont work that way crack head rob banks and stores i have never seen a pot head do that for a joint maybe call the pizza dude but not this you live in the dark and will believe anything they tell you wake up please so you dont sound like a idiot

I fully anticipate the fallout from this remark, but here goes... THE SENTENCE IS INCORRECT... THE PUNISHMENT DOESN'T FIT THE CRIME! Does this woman deserve a long sentence for severe child abuse, ABSOLUTELY!.. However, 99 years is the sentence they give 1st Degree Homicide and Serial Killers.. Who died here and was the killing premeditated? No One Died and the Killing was not premeditated.. Because there was no killing...

Does this woman deserve 15-20 years, absolutely... But, a 99 year sentence is inconsistent with the type of crime... That is why instead of doing the 15-20 years this woman should be doing, you can bet your last dime; her attorney's are already planning the appeal due to the incorrect sentence given.. The judge allowed emotion to rule instead of following the rule of law in sentencing... Now, the sentence will be overturned in 1-5 years and this lady will walk on a technicality..

This happens everyday, people! Check out similar cases in State Appeal Courts across the country.. Judges inconsistent with their convictions and those convictions overturned due to this technicality....

The judge would have been wiser to give her 15-20 without the possibility of parole....

She's just another 47% er who will be getting full government benefits for the rest of her life. A light sentence as far as I'm concerned!

I pray that her kids heal and move on past this horrible start and get the most out of their lives!

Unhappy-1583758

Unhappy: so you're saying that the thousands of people who regularly drink beer, wine, or almond extract and beat their kids daily are ok because alcohol is legal? Or do you think it should be made illegal again so that we will have bathtub gin cut with antifreeze and people dying from that like there was during the first prohibition?

USAGI-SENSAI: I never said any such thing.....What's common among people who regularly drink wine, beer, or almond extract is that they are not considered hallucinogenic drugs. MARIJUANA IS A HALLUCINOGENIC DRUG. The fact that she was smoking it twice per day up until the time she beat her kid is one of the reasons, why you shouldn't make it legal. Cocaine CAN be a hallucinogenic drug as well..... Does it mean that it should be legal.

Stop thinking that people are the same everywhere and that where taking one drug can have no effect, someone with a different nervous system can have the opposite.

You make it sound like PCP unahppy LOL.. Dont bend the facts to make marijuana out to be something its not. Marijuana is considered a MILD hallucigen and its ONLY considered that because of its effect on SHORT TERM memory ..

Its not like acid or PCP which is exactly the way you just portrayed it.

Your Exactly Right marijuana did not cause this, bad people are going to be bad people straight, stoned, prayed thru or just plain stupid. Take away the kids give her a choice between getting spayed or a reasonalbe jail sentence. Handing out this kind of draconian sentence appeases the ignorant red necks while showing the world America is a place without mercy or reason. The overall society is the real root cause of these incidents. The answers go against the bullcrap that most of you have been indoctrainated with so bringing them up is probably waste of time. It does go towards why I personally got up and left the USA and I will not be back. Freedom is a precious thing and unfortunately it no longer exists in the good ol' USA. Oh I know you don't understand why I would say that but then you have never been more than three states in any direction and certainly haven't traveled extensively. Give you a hint when I see footage from Syria I recognize places I have been same for most of Europe, Russia,cental and South America and Asia. I live in a city that dwarfs New York but is far far safer- Bangkok. Yes we can and do many things here you don't like. You don't like the fact that the best and most beautiful women in the world live here and don't consider sex sinful- just a lot of fun. We don't have to settle for domestic bliss with a full growed sow hog, Fellow Americans now remind me of really bad parodies of really bad situation comedies, youth has no hair and no attitude much less any personality, Ghetto Monkee noise is considered music! From there it just gets worse... Good luck! you are going to need it. I will be here playing my guitar in a bar with 150 or so naked young beauties every night,its a tough job but somebodies got to do it.

The fine people in Texas have the right to be anomalies if that's what they want. In this case, I support their...anomalousness. The fine people in PA aren't so anomalous. "I hope that helps."

First off, Sandusky wasn't sentenced in Texas.

Secondly, the length and nature of the sentence affects when the convicted is eligible for parole.

Sandusky will die in prison, either by shank or old age.

This woman may live long enough to see at least a parole hearing, if not the outside world once more.

Whether it's the article's slanted observation, or the defense's lame claim that the defendant's alleged marijuana "abuse", somehow turned her into a crazed, baby torturer, it strains all fathomable credulity, that a drug so widely used with no provable link to violent behavior and in fact is known for promoting passive, peaceful behaviors, is scapegoated in such a fashion. How many political-motivated hacks, will use these bogus and ridiculous claims, as part of a campaign against any rational normalization of marijuana laws ? More desperate hysteria to "cloud" the fact, that this woman is a sad commentary on our society. That any fertile female over 12 can conceive, and then encouraged to "have", then "keep" the child, regardless of how thoroughly unfit a parent or, human being they may be.

This is my entire argument for Pro-Choice right here. This woman was not fit to have or raise a child and should have been given the option and resources to get an abortion. There are consequences to the being Pro-Life, this is one of them. Condoms and sex education are also good option. Children born to unfit parents, low income parents, criminal parents who are forced into this world and then abandoned by the same people who campaign to bring them into it. These kids are treated like @!$%# their entire lives, get into trouble with the law, become addicts or worse just like their parents. It's a terrible tragedy that this girl died but it could have been prevented by not having her in the first place.

Unhappy,

She said she was smoking pot during the time "before " the abuse. Not during the time "of" the abuse. If pot had anything to do with this at all, it was an abuse preventative, not an abuse instigator. Unlike you, I don't claim anything about pot is relevant in any way to this tragedy, just that your logic is ass backward.

Price asked Escalona what she thought should happen in the case. Escalona replied in a soft, halting voice: "I should be put away." Then, she added, "But I also think I should be given a second chance."

When Price asked her why, she responded: "Because I'm not a monster."

Her and Sandusky must have the same guidance counselor for the Defense Mechanisms. Good to know the court did not believe her, because she is a monster to do that to her children.

"They didn't bother me, but I did (need) a little break," she said.

Ask and she shall receive - the 99 years seems to be just about right so those children will never have to worry again. The "little break" is a tad bit more than she wished for but then, she asked for it with her testimony and the judge granted her "wish".

A break from your kids is finding a baby sitter for a couple hours. Grandma seems to care about those kids since she went to the witness stand against her own daughter. A break from your kids is not breaking parts of your kids' bodies.

That cvnt deserves every day of her sentence; misery begets misery...

It's about time a woman get's a sentence that a man would get for doing the same thing

A lot of sick, sick people out there. I still believe Russia did get that one part right for pedos, molesters, rapist, etc. Once you get your appeal (if you lose), you go to wardens office, write your final letter of appeal, they lead you back to your cell and then pop, door swings closed and you get bullet to skull, instant death.

This lady is a monster. She brutalized this child. I really would put her in a lesser category that sandusky, but only barely. She at least has the balls to say she did it, though everything else is begging.

Unless she has a prior record, the sentence is so far out of the guide lines, that it will be modified on appeal, the judge is not applying the law, only enforcing his personnel feelings, which a judge is sworn not to do.

There's a little bit of NAZI in every Mexican.

I grew up in a home with a mother like this. While at her funeral I was having a difficult time showing emotion to suit the occasion of her passing because I suddenly felt safe for the first time in my life. I searched my thoughts for any reason to be sad so others who were looking would not think I had a cold heart. Then it came to me, the thought that this woman in this casket had stolen from me the right to mourn a mothers passing. With this she hurt me, just one last time, and with that thought I wept uncontrollably..

I can think of an easy way of avoiding the stress caused by raising 5 children: DON'T HAVE 5 CHILDREN

Why is Meenoseeno allowed to utter ethnic slurs ("a little bit of Nazi in every Mexican") on this site?

I guess it is because Mexico did not send even ONE SOLDIER to fight Nazi Germany.

or

Because Mexican soldiers murdered American immigrants in Texas 1836.

If the ethnic slur fits.........

Wake up2840, Roadrunnero and Old Timer88224, thanks so much for your thoughtful comments. You have left me with a thread of hope for mankind.

Yes, the woman needs to be punished for her cruelty but the sentence is far too excessive.

I am a bit concerned for the people with comments asking that her hand be chopped off or some other cruel punishment to be handed out. My question to them is; what makes you any better than this woman, the Taliban or adherents of Sharia law?

This sentence is ridiculous. Murderers don't get 99 years. Media spotlighting your case and sensationalizing it gets you 99 years. Justice was not served here. This lady does deserve to be punished... but 99 years is a knee-jerk reaction sentence to please the public. It's child abuse. Plain and simple child abuse, possible assault, maybe even attempted murder. THOSE CRIMES DO NOT COME WITH A 99 YEAR SENTENCE.

Mike Schmidt,Her abuse was torture.The little girl was in critical condition and the skin on her hands peeled off.She was only two years old and will feel this trauma for a longtime.The lady got what she deserved.No excuses for people that torture others especially children who are defenseless against these disgusting excuse for a mother.If I were CPS the Grandmother would not have custody of these children because she is the one who raised this irresponsible mother who has no clue how to raise children,has no father in these children's lives,was a gang member and a drug user.Grandma did a horrible job raising this torturer.

Perfect case for providing free birth control for those who can't control themselves!!! Anyone who abuses a child needs to be permanently sterilized after their kids are removed from their 'care'. Big freaking deal if a 2 year old is having a problem with potty training... you don't abuse them in this manner.

Hope her children find LOVING permanent homes very quickly and are NOT separated. Poor babies.

SO NOW HERE'S THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE SO ADAMANTLY PRO LIFE TO DO SOME REAL GOOD AND GIVE A HOME TO THESE KIDS... THEY SHOULDN'T BE SEPARATED... LIVE UP TO YOUR FU@KING CONVICTIONS AND RELIGIOUS IDEALS, DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mar...king... 99 years in prison on the wall, 99 years in prison...nothing will teach you patience like, marking 99 years in prison on the wall...

With apologies to peaceful, fun-loving beer drinkers everywhere !

My cousin had his throat slit by a drunk and the drunk got 2 years probation. I agree this is knee jerk reaction and the sentence of 99 years reflects it. She should go to jail but that is essentially life in prison. You can shoot a man in cold blood and only do 8 to 10 with good behavior. This is not Justice, it's Revenge.

True but this was torture for these babies. This type of thing kills slowly....it kills the soul!! This woman is a MONSTER!! I feel so sad that these kids had to endure such things for so long! Terrible!! If she really felt remorse then why is she smoking weed while her little 2 year old is still in the hospital? Sick B**tch!!

My thoughts exactly! How is it that rapists, child molesters, and murderers get less time than this? I don't decry this ruling because she's a woman, but because people who do way worse things get off much easier than this woman. For Fvcks sake, Jerry Sandusky did worse things to many many more people, how does he only get 40-60years?

I have no problem with the sentence, but I also believe it is absurd that her sentence should be longer than murderers, rapists, pedophiles ... I don't believe the solution is a shorter sentence for her, but a longer sentence for for others.

annon,

I agree totally that Jerry Sandusky and all the other rapists, child molesters, and murderers deserve worse, but in the case of Sandusky, he's already 68, so his minimum of 30 years with no parole would put him at an absolute minimum of 98 years old when eligible to get out... effectively, a life sentence. But yeah, totally agreed that the law doesn't appropriately deal with these POS's, especially crimes against kids. No mercy for them at all.

That being said, I still think this ruling for Elizabeth Escalona is entirely merited... a psychopathic, cruel, sadistic, and very dangerous monster who needs to be locked up the rest of her life.

Exactly...strange how some people get the book thrown at them and others that should, because their crime is equal or worse in heinousness, don't. As for rapists, child molesters, first degree murderers, serial killers...they should all be sent to a penal colony in the Pacific somewhere. That way they can live out their lives molesting and murdering each other, BUT with the chance to live through their own effort in their own society, and not at the expense tax payers (besides maybe transportation and rotating guard duties).

myopinion,

My opinion too. People should not get upset that she got 99 years. Its what she deserves. They should be upset that the child rapist clown (in case you missed it yesterday, there actually was a clown who raped a 12 year old girl) only got 10 years. Dont cry for this woman, cry for the kids whos attackers only got about a decade for a lifetime of pain.

The sentencing disparity varies so widely because of many factors, like the state the crime is committed in. For Sandusky, 30-60 years in PA means he can't get out a day under 30. In Texas, 99 years is no where near 99 years, probably closer to 50.

There number is relative, both are going to probably die in prison, who really cares if they got 10 or 1000 years, the end result is the same.

But for other cases, many times they consult the victim/family. And the victim may decide a 10 year plea is a way better option than testifying, which could result in a longer term or an acquittal. Add in factors like a defendants wealth, and disparities are going to happen. Ditto with expensive and complicated trials, sometimes he just have to realize that 10 years for a murder/rape is a better option then an acquittal and the defendant walking out of the courtroom.

99 years is alot, and yes murderers get less time. What she did was so much worse on so many levels. She has 4 other children, imagine what they have endured. They have been given a blessing by having her taken out of their lives for good.

Casey Anthony gets 0 years.

"Casey Anthony gets 0 years."

I guess you can get away with murder in FL.........

Last month in an Oregon courtroom a judge sentence a SOB who molested two of his many children to PROBATION. Was this sick pos sexually molesting a son and a daughter less heinous than what this woman did???? This pig admitted that he knew he had a problem as early as middle school, addcited to porn. The judge asked what type of porn and the perv said hetro porn of woman 20 to 25. BULL@!$%#!!!!! The POS admitted he was guilty and probably would have continued had the mom not caught him. He didn't know "why" he did it. THe bastard got sent to live with his parents and a brother who was already a CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER!!!!!!! Where is the justice in this country????????

I love Texas justice, yes there are others who have committed murder & rape & gotten lighter sentance's, mostly in other states, I wish all states would be this tough on people who hurt children, good for Texas, what she done to a 2yr old baby over potty training is truely unforgivable, she is a monster & I pray for her children to hopefully have a better life,BTW hope the little one recovers ,but yes she got what she derserves !

Yeah,sure blame it on smoking pot.More like crack,crystal, and black tube snake. A monster is a monster no matter what you put in it. Bend her over,super glue her to a table in the common area for the lifers, and leave her there. Maybe beat her daily and feed her gruel once a week. Just enough to keep her alive.

Or,maybe you could just lock her up and let God mete out what ever punishment He thinks is appropriate.

Casey Anthony got 0 years because the idiot state prosecutor tried to get a guilty verdict for a crime that the state had no chance in Hell of proving. She will,in the end,answer to the Ultimate Prosecutor and there will be no chance of appeal. Besides,"judge not lest ye be judged". Sound familiar?

Where do you start? Gangs at 11 attacking your mother at 12, pregnant at 14 5 children at 23 in a household where she was on drugs twice a day all the while abusing her innocent child (ren). Drinking and using drugs post arrest? She was caught and prosecuted. Is she the only case like this actively occuring today? It boggles my mind to know this is surely going on elsewhere and hasnt been brought to light. I hope the five souls she brought into this world have a shot at a decent future. At least it wasn't the drunken woman who was headlined the other day who shot her children and herself. There is a vast subculture in our society that astounds me. How does it even begin to get fixed? We're looking at human abuses taking place in Afghanistan. Its happening in our own cities.

Escalona has admitted she behaved like a monster when she beat Jocelyn, but insists she isn't one now.

The b!tch still doesn't get it. I'll explain it for her should she or her lawyer read this. YOU ARE NOT BEING TRIED FOR NOW YOU STUIPID B!TCH. You were tried for what you DID THEN!!!!

Mexicans think: "Just play stupid and the dumb gringos will let us poor Mexicans get away with murder."

I grew up in a home with a mother like this. While at her funeral I was having a difficult time showing emotion to suit the occasion of her passing because I suddenly felt safe for the first time in my life. I searched my thoughts for any reason to be sad so others who were looking would not think I had a cold heart. Then it came to me, the thought that this woman in this casket had stolen from me the right to mourn a mothers passing. With this she hurt me, just one last time, and with that thought I wept uncontrollably....

23 and 5 kids...? good God. What a mess.

Hi Eileen - I hear ya. I do agree with many of the posters. Sandusky got 30 - 60 years for his crimes. 99 is a bit much. My question is where was her mother, father, any family member? 5 kids at her age? And the oldest is 8? It did state that she did beat up her mother as a teenager but for crying out loud, why wasn't something done/started back then? Her mom probably thought she was a throw away and that's where this little chick learned her routine. Sad all the way around.

Simple answer for the draconian sentence: Prisons for Profit

Too bad the largely sadistic, scapegoat seeking public not only don't really notice they like it...until they find themselves being prosecuted for what wasn't a crime last year.

40,000 New Laws in 2012:

msnbc.msn.com/id/45819570/ns/us_news-life/t/new-laws-toughen-rules-abortions-immigrants-voters/

Two radically different sources about the evils of Prisons for Profit:

cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/May/Nation-of-Criminals-Selling-Prisons-for-Profit/

commondreams.org/view/2012/04/25-7

You people keep complaining about the 99 year sentence... WHO EVEN LIVES THAT LONG? And what is her age? 40 something??? She completely deserves to be locked up for the REST of her life...

I ask again, why is Meeseeno allowed to publish ethnic slurs against Mexicans on this site ("Mexicans think: "Just play stupid and the dumb gringos will let us poor Mexicans get away with murder.")

MichaelM

Luckily most of Meeseeno's comments will be collapsed but he's just ignorant and looking for attention......lets not give it to him

For all those who think that her sentencing was too harsh be glad that I am not in charge.she would have been taken out and executed.the reason why people keep on committing crimes against children,most of the time their own children,is because we have a nanny government with inconsistant punishments for crimes.If you don't want to incarcerated for life or face the death penalty then don't harm other people.It is not necessary to harm others in order to live.No excuses and no sympathy.

Yeah, because not providing assistance would give you a kid in a coma who is also starving.

Why is it that conservatives believe that our tax dollars somehow make poverty desirable?

If that happened with every person who recieved government aid, this story wouldn't bother you because there would be millions of stories like this.

People from all walks of life do horrible things to other people. The ridiculous notion that government aid somehow caused this is plain ignorant.

The taxpayers story again??? Leave that crap out of it.....that is such brainwashed BS!! This woman is a monster and now she will pay!! Taxpayer crap just sounds stupid! Our government will tax us for something and then mis-spend the money.....it isn't going where they say it goes! They make up reasons to raise taxes every fricken year!!

Middleclassman and terriels,

Why do you think poverty has gone up since welfare, especialy for some minorities. Perpetuates the lazy leech mentality.

Why do you think poverty has gone up since welfare, especialy for some minorities. Perpetuates the lazy leech mentality.

Just because something makes sense, doesn't mean its true. People aren't impoverished because they want to be - you don't give your American brethren much credit do you. People are impoverished because the opportunity is no longer there because rampant capitalism doesn't care about people, it cares about the bottom line. If a company can raise the stock price a nickel, they'll fire every American working for them and send those "anti-poverty measures" right over to China.

The government should offer everyone of childbearing age $2000 to get irreversibly sterilized. Losers like this woman would jump at the chance to get that chunk of cash to buy drugs, or something shiny. A lot of society's problems would be solved.

The government should offer everyone of childbearing age $2000 to get irreversibly sterilized.

Impossible. Liberals would see it as inhumane, conservatives wouldn't interfere with God in such a way.

You realize restrictions and regulations have also increased since that time right. And no, I dont give credit to millions of lazy leeches in America. To most Americans yes, to all no.

Let's hope she will NOT reproduce anymore in prison (5 already - - who's your Daddies)!!!!

I wholehearted agree with you but too many hate this idea. There was a group of volunteer doctors going around with a clinic van funded by a wealthy woman stealizing women and paying them a small fee. People hated the fact that these drug addicts we somehow being taken advantage of.

It would be far cheaper to pay for this versus the expenses of her having scores of kids in horrible conditions. If only stupidity lowered the rates of fertility.

She's was no "Wise Latina" like Sonya Sotomayer.

Sonya would have used a hot glue gun.

I grew up in a home with a mother like this. While at her funeral I was having a difficult time showing emotion to suit the occasion of her passing because I suddenly felt safe for the first time in my life. I searched my thoughts for any reason to be sad so others who were looking would not think I had a cold heart. Then it came to me, the thought that this woman in this casket had stolen from me the right to mourn a mothers passing. With this she hurt me, just one last time, and with that thought I wept uncontrollably......

Where was your daddy Ohh Pinn Yunn? Why did your father not help you?

Where was the father of this child? Or the guy who got her pregnant when she was only 14?

Shouldn't the men have any responsiblity for the kids they brought into this world?

Maxwell,

Way to continue to make this woman some type of victim and blame a man for it all. You do realize that many of these women dont know who the father is right? If you sleep with 20 random dudes in a few months, you're not going to know who the father is.

Or the dad could be like, dead. But no, must be a man's fault.

For the third time, I ask: why is Menoseeno allowed to publish ethnic slurs against Latin people?

katethebrat,Your comment is right on.When people have children for the sole reason of collecting welfare and receive Section8 housing they are being enabled to not get up off of the couch and drugs and earn a living.If you don't have a job you have all day to do drugs and commit other crimes.Ignore the naysayers as any Social Services worker,CPS,Probation officers,Correctional Officers and Drug Counselors will back up your comments 100%.

MaxwellSilverhammer,Read the book called A Boy Named It.This man wrote his true life story of his mentally ill Mom's abuse.She only abused this one child.Guess where his father was?His father was at work.He was a fireman.The school,his Grandmother and his Dad saw his injuries.Nobody did squat for this man.Your remarks to the poster who lived through abuse is uncalled for and unsensitive.

As she had a lifetime sentence from what was done to her. You cannot recognize the harm done to the children without recognizing that that is the same harm that was done to her. The line of abuse is hard to stop and she couldn't do it. That said I am not saying she should not be punished-what she did was awful and lets hope the kids get the help they need so they don't grow up to do the same thing.

Is her "mother" now raising her grandchildren in the same way she raised this monster?

Granted she had a hard life, she was abused, but at some point, you have to take responsibility and put a stop to the abuse because you are now the abuser. You don't transfer the abuse to your children - a 2 year old baby! She had no way of defending herself against her "mother." I use that term loosely - I don't consider someone who knowingly comes up with tortures for her child a mother. What she did was inexcusable - I don't care that she was abused - her 2 year old didn't abuse her. Now she's crying and not a monster - Now she knows what she did was wrong and she should have gotten help - I guess the prospect of spending her life in jail made her decide that a change is in order. The change should have occurred after the first child - don't have any more!!!

Cdb,

You break the cycle. I still have visible, as well as psycological scars from the abuse I suffered as a child. I would never let my children suffer as I have, and do, with those scars. I never understand how people can blame others for what they choose to do themselves. She made a choice, now she has to live with it, and unfortunately her children do as well.

And so I ask again: where are the fathers of these kids? Can they provide them with a better home? Do they care or share any of the responsibility for their existence and well-being?

My mother did worst things to me and was never reprehended or put in jail. She hit me everyday and made me eat food I did not like and she also threw a knife at me in my head and one time she step on my head with her heavy body and foot. She also, made me steal when I was barely five years old by putting new underwear under my pants. She also killed my little brother when he was 6. I saw this with my own eyes. I was barely 4 years old. The worst thing she did was left me in care of my uncle who was her baby sitter and he raped me from 3 to 6 years of age and try to do the same thing when I was 15. My uncle and my mom have never paid for these crimes. Write to me at fredysan2008athutmaildotcome

@work harder,

do they (the fathers) even know? May be like trying to find a partiular drop of water in the ocean.

There are no real fathers.

Latina didn't need no stinkin' man!

Most likely for herself!! I can't believe no one turned her in long ago! Where were these kids grandparents or aunts or uncles? Did no one know that this was going on? Neighbors? I just don't understand how she could get away with this for so long!!

The grandma took the stand against her own daughter. Even family members dont always know what goes on behind closed doors. Children have a hard time speaking up about abuse, especially when its from their own mom.

Wheres the father?---fathers?

You mean 99 jears, don't you?

LG:

I realize we have differet avatar numbers, but the initials are the same.

BMCM 9,

If you sleep with 20 random dudes, you're not going to know who the father is. He may also be dead. Or also in jail.

The fathers or father are no doubt gang bangers.This poor excuse of a mother was a gang member.She probably doesn't know who the fathers are or doesn't want social services to know so that she could collect aid for dependent children.

Ditto rapists.

@Geral Parks.....EXACTLY!! Our judicial system is warped!

Agreed. She deserved 99 years, but that clown who raped the 12 year old girl only got 10. He should be serving at least the same amount of time as this woman. (not the other way around).

I bet the clown does not leave prison except in a pine box.

Gerald Parks: I totally 100% agree with you. What this woman did obviously was very wrong, I would never want to see a child hurt in any way. But as Gerald points out child molesters get sentences much smaller than this. In my state (OR) a man who had abused at least 3 boys got eight years. EIGHT YEARS!! 99 years is too big a sentence, even Sandusky got less than that, I know it is an individual state issue but come on, let's get it together and start meting out the punishment to match the crime.

Julia, The punishment does fit the crime. The worst crime in the world is being abused by a parent as it does the most psychological damage to the individual abused. You can not hate a parent who is abusing you because you need them for survival, so you turn the hate onto yourself. Anyone else can hate or be angry at their abusers or any monster that hurt them.

As a child abuse vicitm myself by my own parents hands, there is not enough time in this world for them to spend in prison for all the harm they inflicted on my person.

Bowknuckles, You have been through hell for sure. You have handled it with dignity. You have my respect and I personally wish you the best for the future.

Jeffrey Hancock,

Thank you so much, you have no idea what your words mean to me as I have worked very hard to overcome what was handed to me, so from the bottom of my heart, Thank you! :)

Well hopefully she will be in jail for the rest of her life if she was sentenced without parole. She'll die in prison unless she somehow finds a way to survive to the old age of 122 as terriels put it in response to James-3672256's comment below.

Because of his age, Sandusky will not live out his sentence. It might as well have been 99 years as far as he is concerned since he will be 98-128 years old when his sentence is complete.

She got 99 years and will be 122 when hers is up.

The reason he only got 30 yrs is, for him, that is a life sentence. He will never be free, and neither will this monster!!

30 years is life for him. And even if he makes it to 98, I dont think any parole board would put that monster out on the streets. Both got life, both deserved it.

What Sandusky did and what she did are both horrible. Who can say which one is "worse". They are all horrible crimes.

Those children need a family to break this cycle of drugs and poverty. Her mother has them now and they should be adopted to a couple of people who will help them in life. No living off their welfare payments. As for this mother...she is getting what she deserves. Stop and think about this: It takes a few minutes for that glue to dry. Was that child unconsious or did she glue her to the wall and then start beating her. Did she glue her as punishment and then the child peed in the floor because she had been standing so long as punishment? If she was glued to the wall before it started she couldn't get away till she pulled the skin off her little hands trying to dodge mommies blows. She is a baby for God's sake, a baby that wasn't potty trained. What has she done to her other children? I hope she never gets to see those kids again and I hope they are so young they will forget her. These kids need to be taken away from the whole family. They are all of the same mind set and these kids aren't safe living with them. If you have an 11 year old smoking pot and having babies at 14 you sure have more on your plate then you can handle. These kids are just a welfare check and food stamp card to this family.

There really is no distinction between the actions of this mother and the actions of
the judge. Both committed a sadistic atrocity against someone completely at
their mercy, both had been brought to a state of depraved indifference to human
suffering by the then attendant circumstances, and the actions of both are the complete result of
their un-asked-for set of genes and different environments they were born into.
Are there really any pertinent discernible differences between them upon which any rational person can say one is inherently more evil and/or more good than the other? As
such, humans are inherently incapable of sentencing in order “Punish” because all
of our actions are the sole result of the genes we were born with and the
environments we were born into. Sentencing in order to "punish" is hence
inherently immoral, because no one has any control over their genes or the
environment they were born into.

Glued the childs hands to a wall?Sounds like text right out of our own

college of the Americas.My mistake,they had classes that taught how to

rape nuns and children then shoot them.

I just hope you want more time for murderers, not less time for child abusers.

she will die slowly 99 years worth of death - 1 day at a time.

Can we deport her, sandman, the rapist clown and some others to, oh, lets say mars. Maybe we can study the effects of low grav on a cadaver

She won't be in there 99 years. Sissy will take care of her!

Great line from the prosecution....

More prosecutors need to learn this line

And Jocelyn's daddy--if you impregnated Ms. Escalona, you too can look at your daughter. Help the mom of your child.

Where is Jocelyn's dad?

She was probably a hooker --- needed money to buy drugs !!!

My husband and I desperately wanted children; was unable to have them, so we adopted 3 kids. Anyone who has adopted in California, knows the unbelieveable crap they make you go thru to give those kids a good home. You're right, if a person can have kids; they have the right to be a parent, whether they are a good one or a bad one. It's disgusting!!!!

Bless you LoveBNamom for giving three children a home and family. I hope your family lives a long happy life.

Even though you didnt give birth to your kids, your a million times more of what a mom is than this sicko.

Aww, thank you MrBurns. It's actually our kids that are the blessing. They all come from mothers with drug and alcohol backgrounds, and I won't say it's easy; but it's always worth it. With the right help and lot's of love; they are actually coming around pretty well. My husband and I went into this with our Motto "It's not about us; it's about the kids and how we can help save them."

My only regret LoveBN is that I can only upvote you once. You deserve a billion of them. It's hard to find someone willing to take in the hard case kids. When you take in three, you prove that there is a lot of love in your hearts. I can't wait to shake your hand in Heaven cause I know there is a special place there for you and your family. God bless!

LoveBNamom~ first I want to thank you for what you do as a part of the CPS system. I think the general public have NO idea all of the work you guys do and how overwhelming the number of children actually are.

And we too, are foster/adoptive parents in CA and I couldn't agree with you more!! While we completely understand why they make us jump through the hoops they do to care for our kids, the infuriating part is that the biological parents aren't held to excactly the same standards. To quote the movie 'Parenthood'~ "You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car - hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any butt-reaming @!$%# be a father."

KT, there are plenty of sicko mothers out there too.

I have two adopted children, one adopted later in his life (teen) very abused mentally and physically by all adults in his life, male and female.

To Lovebnamom, that is awesome that you have three. I am not sure I could handle three at a time. I think my wife is that good, not sure about me as I am already bald, no hair to pull out.

To anyone and everyone else out there, for god's sake if you see stuff like what happened in this story, or sandusky or some other crap, TELL SOMEONE!...If they don't listen, tell again...don't let these monsters get away with it.

Because our welfare system gives us nothing else to think!!! There needs to be a complete overhaul of the welfare system! To get assistance; every recipient should HAVE to go to school for some trade or other. They should be fully reviewed each year and if they aren't complying; strip them from receiving further aid. Unfortunately, the kids suffer but that seems to be the case now as well. The parent(s) using the cash aid and selling the food stamps for drugs, poverty, abuse, etc.. It's an unending cycle!!!!

Yes, this woman had her first baby at 14 and was pregnant when she was arrested. Instead of spending her money on pot, she should've gone to get birth control. She was clearly miserable but just kept compounding her problems and making life difficult for her children too.

@LoveBNamom - Actually, I don't know if there are still food stamps, I've seen people using a card instead so I don't think they can sell them any more. There does have to be a safety net for the children but it sounds like this woman should never have had custody of her kids since she was just in prison until February. The problem with a person like this is that if they have to go to school, etc. , then daycare has to be provided for her children and, unless, her mother(the grandmother) can provide the care, even when she gets a job, it won't be enough to cover the daycare.

So true, Love. I had a Facebook friend who actually posted that they were selling their food stamps. I posted a response that it was illegal to do that and that if they can afford a computer and internet service, they probably didn't need the welfare in the first place. Back in the 70's, you weren't allowed to have a telephone, TV, or any items that were not necessary for the sustaining of life, if you were on relief (that's what they called it back then). You were allowed food, furnishings, clothes and a roof over your head. Maybe a radio but the idea was that if you could afford something like a TV or phone service, you were not bad off enough to have welfare. It used to be that people were ashamed of being given a handout. Now, welfare seems to be a status symbol. "I get free housing and free food and what I don't use I sell to get money for my drugs and my iPhone and my cable and my internet, and the more kids I pop out, the more money I get, etc., etc., etc." These people get more money sitting on their ass surfing the net than I do working 60 hours a week at a job I've had for 10 years! Something definitely needs to change and your suggestions would be a good start. Drug tests would be good too. If you test positive, you obviously have more money than you need or you couldn't afford the drugs.

@ Love and usagi,

Couldn't agree more. It was designed as a handup not a handout. Freeloading needs to end. If you are capable, then go out and get it done.

What you don't understand is that she cannot be sterilized because it would violate her constitutional rights. So if she was sterilized, she would say it was against her will or that she did so only because of duress, coercion. She would then be out of jail, sue, and 3 million + dollars richer from taxpayer money, continuing to do drugs, drink, smoke, and plop out more children. At some point she would OD after having spent all the money and leave several children motherless (fatherless goes without saying) and on the backs of the taxpayers to support.

Therefore, I'd rather use the 3 mill to keep her in jail, thinking about her wretched life and what she did to those children every day she continues to take up space on this earth.

Small price to pay to make sure she is nowhere near kids ever again. As long as its not for bs reasons like weed or prostitution, I have no problem paying money to keep evil away from the innocent.

Abby: I had to laugh when you said that if she were sterilized she could say it was against her will or under duress and then she would get the money directly so she could continue to do drugs, drink, smoke and plop out more children. I'm sure if she were sterilized, she wouldn't be plopping out more kids. I know what you meant tho, and I completely agree with you, it was just kind of funny the way you put it. Putting that 3 mil to use keeping her locked up until the other inmates kill her (they have been known to be extremely not nice to people who have abused kids) is better than awarding it to her for unlawful sterilization, though I personally would like to see it ripped out of her with no anesthesia...

So you don't require it, you make it an option for a reduced sentence.

"Take away her kid, sterilize her and lock her up for 5-10 years to grow up"

And better yet--sterilize all the guys that got her pregnant too! Especially Jocelyn's dad--and whoever impregnanted her when she was a kid of 14 herself!

You really have man hate dont you Maxwell.

Are you serious?? I hope you go to Prison with her for acting like you feel for her, sick indeed....

Sorry disagree less than two years in jail would not do it.

I agree with Yatahey; take her kids away, sterilize her and give her 5-10 (preferrably 10).

some of these people like to shoot of their mouth when its not them.

You guys probably like the fact that the clown who raped the 12 year old only got 10 years. Who cares about kids anyway right?

Are you insane!! 99 days..you need to go hit your crack pipe again...you probably think that since she already has 5 kids you got a chance to "tap that"...idiots like you are the reason our world is in the dire state it is...

99 weeks? That's not even 2 years! I agree that 99 years seems excessive especially after reading the story today about a man in Connecticut was given 8 years for arson(he was a volunteer fireman so did he like attention or did he want a chance to see people die in a fire - sick) that resulted in the deaths of 2 people(that's 8 years for killing 2 people!!) but was already serving 5 years for molesting 5 boys or 1 year for each boy he molested!!! Wow! Talk about someone who needs to be given life.

Anyway, she should serve at least 10 - 15 years but she definitely needs to be kept away from her children. Why did she keep having children? She was apparently pregnant when she nearly killed her two year old. How will her mother be able to cope with these kids?

@DuaneGoedecke- Maybe you need to learn how to read. He said 99 weeks, not days. No need for the nasty attack.

So we can wait til read about her death instead ??? Shameful-

The super glue was to keep the baby from curling up in a ball to protect herself, and you think two years is an acceptable sentence for beating your baby to death? I realize the baby lived, but not because this woman wasn't trying. I think 20 without parole would have done it, but we have to stop this child abuse and molestation and then sentencing the abuser to only two years.

@Martin Williams-6933254-I hope you really don't think that sentence is harsh for a person that could such vile act to a child, especially their own. So I'm guessing you're one of those internet trolls I hear about that likes to make offensive and controversial comments for attention. Either way you are a worthless human being and should crawl back under the rock you came from and hopefully you are crushed by the weight in a slow death.

girl62009..well said!!!!

OMG....to read the comments is to see the disgusting hypocritical nature of Americans!

You're a bunch of vindictive psychopaths hiding behind "justifiable reasoning" to show how hateful and eager YOU are to murder, kill and hurt others....just like this woman did.

Raising a young child is INSANELY trying...let alone 5 at the age of 23 - and yet all you would-be executioners and mob-justice murderers also want to outlaw and discourage abortion for women clearly NOT prepared for the all-out sacrifice of raising a child??? Look into the mirror, you self-congratulating primates...listen to how EAGER you all are to lynch, kill & murder in the name of the same "Babies" that you turn around and curse when they turn out all screwed up like this chick no doubt was from her low-quality upbringing.

She's no danger to 'society'...just her own unwanted children. She should get 5yrs and lose all her children.

And why aren't the fathers responsible for the children they brought into this world? Especially the guy who impregnated her at the age of 14. Where is he? Where is Jocelyn's daddy?

"You're a bunch of vindictive psychopaths hiding behind "justifiable reasoning" to show how hateful and eager YOU are to murder, kill and hurt others....just like this woman did."

"Raising a young child is INSANELY trying...let alone 5 at the age of 23 - and yet all you would-be executioners and mob-justice murderers also want to outlaw and discourage abortion for women clearly NOT prepared for the all-out sacrifice of raising a child???"

So your reasoning is the people who are psychopaths are the people who would prefer the death penalty for this woman after kicking the 2 year old child in the stomach breaking ribs, super gluing her hands to the wall causing the child's skin to rip off, being beat with a milk jug, causing bleeding to her brain and a 2 day coma? All while this woman was just some stressed out mom to you? And your saying she should only get a 5 year sentence??? I hope you never have kids because YOUR reasoning scares the @!$%# out of me. So tell me DrSebby, if someone is willing to do this to a child why did you even ASSUME the following at all?: "She's no danger to 'society'...just her own unwanted children. She should get 5yrs and lose all her children."

I'm not saying she deserves the death penalty, but this woman earns the psycho award. She should be locked up for the remainder of her life for NEARLY KILLING THE CHILD FROM BLEEDING IN THE BRAIN. And of course the other said injuries. YOU DON'T DRINK WATER IN A 2 DAY COMA. Unless you're already at the hospital receiving IVs. But no, according to YOU, Americans are the psychos and not this woman. DID YOU EVEN READ THE WHOLE STORY??

Be afraid, Elizabeth Escalona. Be VERY afraid. Life is gonna be extremely dangerous for you now, and you are in very, very grave danger. If you can survive in prison as long as Jeff Dahmer did, you will be very, very lucky.

Sentence her to watch reruns of "I Love Lucy" 24 hours a day. I can't imagine a more fitting way of driving someone to insanity.

YOU are no better than she is, judging by your comment. You're a f'ing animal hiding behind 'popular opinion'....coward psychopath.

Child abusers are the child molesters of the female prison population. Many of the women in there are mothers themselves and are probably drooling over the idea of killing her painfully.

An earlier article said that the maternal grandmother has custody of the children and has since February.

Well, I've been told by someone I 'know' in the US...whom I KNOW Is being abused...that as long as they have a house to live in.....the State leaves them with the parent, whether they're abusive or not. I even called the State Troopers one night....from CANADA, and was told that they couldn't check the kid's legs, unless the PARENT gave permission.....I told them...The parent IS the abuser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They called back and told me.."We went there....they both said everything's fine!" She backed out at the last minute, she said....was afraid....and then I'm HERE, up all that night, imagining her getting the @!$%# beaten out of her by that lunatic.
So YEAH, I DO agree with this sentence....and a lot more should join her, because all they do is pop kid's out to get welfare and stay on their lazy asses all day and do NOTHING except abuse the kids!
It makes me ILL to even think of.

There HAD to be some other people involved in what this woman did, people that SHOULD have stepped in to STOP her AND help her and her children long before it escalated to the point where her children were being so abused! Where were HER family and friends? Did she not have a SINGLE person to talk to or lean on? Where were the father/s of these five kids? Someone must have seen what was going on and did nothing to stop it, making THEM just as guilty as her for such abuse and neglect! She didn't live in a Monk's cell so what about the kid's teachers, their friend's parents, etc, etc?

And I'm sorry, but, while I sure believe she should be punished I've seen too many cases of pedophiles, murderers and rapists get less time and more sympathy then this woman got! She is in desperate need of HELP and she isn't going to get any in prison! With a 99 year prison sentence they will just toss her in and throw away the key and forget about her obvious mental problems! No mother, not suffering from SEVERE control, emotional and anger issues, would ever dream of harming her children like this woman did and she should certainly never be around them OR any children again, but it's sad that not a single person sees the damage inside of this woman that stems from her own horrors!

Makes me wonder just what society is going to have to deal with in her children when they become adults. More dysfunctional adults unleashed on society, maybe...?

So now you think it was the fault of her friends and family? All these Catholics popping out children they don't even feel any compassion for, not even a shred of decency, and you think somehow we should feel sorry for her because other other people should have stepped in? I feel that concept is wrong. If someone gets a dog and they don't like dogs, don't blame the neighbors for not stepping in when they chain it to a tree. When a woman has three children and starts beating her baby to death because the little thing isn't potty trained at the tender age of two, it's not her family's fault. Perhaps it's the catholic Church's fault who preach against abortion and birth control to billions of poor people who haven't any resources or education to raise the children they have -- nor do they offer any assistance or training to these people with which to cope.

Blaming the Catholic Church?! Phooey! Someone doesn't want kids?! DON'T HAVE SEX. Appears dad isn't around anyway. 99 Years?! WOW!! The other inmates love child molestors so much, it'll be a miracle if she survives nine months! Goodbye & good riddance.

@Savage Chezz...I wonder that too! I see all too many times that CPS uses the worst judgement in handling cases. They rob kids from great families and keep the families together in these nightmare cases! They are useless! They have issues the things I have noticed is that they tear families apart rather than try to help them.

Where is the father? Why shouldn't the father have any responsiblity for the child or children he brings into this world?

she is 23 years old and has five kids....do you REALLY think she has a clue who either of her childrens father is? glue her lips and her eylids shut... Nothing but a refried piece of monkey schit