DALLAS (AP) — Defense testimony continues in the sentencing trial of a Dallas woman who admitted to beating her 2-year-old daughter and gluing her hands to a wall.
Prosecutors are seeking a 45-year prison sentence for Elizabeth Escalona. That's after she pleaded guilty in July to felony injury to a child.
Police say the 23-year-old mother attacked Jocelyn Cedillo in September 2011 because she was mad about potty training problems.
Police records show that Escalona's other children told authorities she kicked Jocelyn in the stomach and hit her with a jug of milk. They said Escalona then glued Jocelyn's hands to the wall with a type of strong adhesive commonly known as Super Glue.
In testimony Monday, Escalona's mother testified that her daughter is "not a monster" and deserves probation.
