A Georgia decide scolded a mom who fatally stabbed her 13-month-old daughter, calling the crime “heinous” and “unfathomable.”
“You probably did a horrible factor,” Cherokee County Chief Superior Courtroom Decide Ellen McElyea instructed 24-year-old Chloe Driver throughout her sentencing on Thursday, Dec. 12.
“This was a heinous offense with proof that was so graphic and so traumatic that I started to do analysis on what sort of help and assist we may give the jurors who had been having to think about it,” she stated.
“A mother or father killing a toddler is one thing that simply offends us on the deepest degree. It’s a flawed that simply is unfathomable. It simply can’t be understood and it scares us as a result of it’s so opposite to only basic ethical habits and what we anticipate of the bonds between human beings.”
McElyea sentenced Driver to life in jail with the opportunity of parole one month after Driver was discovered responsible however mentally ailing of malice homicide, felony homicide, cruelty to youngsters within the first diploma, and aggravated assault within the 2020 dying, CBS2 reported.
The case got here to gentle on Dec. 8, 2020, when the Canton Police Department responded to a Cherokee County, Ga., house the place they discovered 13-month-old Hannah affected by stab wounds.
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Driver, who was described as having “life-threatening accidents” from the incident, was additionally taken to the hospital.
Through the trial, prosecutors accused Driver of killing Hannah as a result of she needed to be along with her “polygamist” husband who additionally allegedly had two different wives.
A letter allegedly written by Driver that was shared in courtroom learn, “He didn’t do it. I did it. I used to be going insane and not needed to be along with his pals however stored coming again for him. I solely needed my child and husband however he refused.”
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Explaining the alleged motive, prosecutors stated, “She needed to be with him and he was by no means going to surrender his polygamist cult life-style that they’d adopted.”
Prosecutors alleged the group held “radical views” and “various” therapeutic practices that included “ingesting their very own urine.”
Throughout Thursday’s sentencing, Driver expressed regret for her actions: “I’m terribly sorry for a lot of issues in my life however most of all for who was misplaced, and I at all times can be. Each single day I dwell with my guilt,” she stated.
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