Grandmother kills 8-year-old
Published: 2013 July 15 10:36:06 (4917 Views)
A Chicago grandmother accused of killing her 8-year-old granddaughter inflicted abuse for so long that the dead little girl had maggots living in a head wound that had gone untreated, cops said in a shocking case.
Helen M. Ford, 51, eventually strangled and beat Gizzell Kiara Ford to death, cops say, ending weeks, maybe months, of systematic abuse.
The grandmother is held on no bail and faces a murder charge.
The details of the crime were unveiled Sunday by prosecutors who presented a disturbing case against the girl's caretaker, police say.
Cops found the girl "cold" and dead when they responded to a call of a person not breathing around 11:15 a.m. Friday, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The girl lived with her grandmother and bedridden father, both of whom were home when the girl died.
Ford initially told cops the girl inflicted the injuries herself.
Ford kept the little girl away from her family and friends, Gizzell's uncle, Osvaldo Mercado, told the Tribune.
"Helen blocked everybody," Mercado, 30, said. "She would say, 'Gizzell can't talk - she's in the shower, or on punishment.' It was an excuse every time we called."
"She was outgoing; she spoke to everybody," Mercado said of little Gizzell. "It was like one big party when she got together with her cousins. She had a brain; she had manners."
- NYDaily
Helen M. Ford, 51, eventually strangled and beat Gizzell Kiara Ford to death, cops say, ending weeks, maybe months, of systematic abuse.
The grandmother is held on no bail and faces a murder charge.
The details of the crime were unveiled Sunday by prosecutors who presented a disturbing case against the girl's caretaker, police say.
Cops found the girl "cold" and dead when they responded to a call of a person not breathing around 11:15 a.m. Friday, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The girl lived with her grandmother and bedridden father, both of whom were home when the girl died.
Ford initially told cops the girl inflicted the injuries herself.
Ford kept the little girl away from her family and friends, Gizzell's uncle, Osvaldo Mercado, told the Tribune.
"Helen blocked everybody," Mercado, 30, said. "She would say, 'Gizzell can't talk - she's in the shower, or on punishment.' It was an excuse every time we called."
"She was outgoing; she spoke to everybody," Mercado said of little Gizzell. "It was like one big party when she got together with her cousins. She had a brain; she had manners."
- NYDaily
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