Tuesday, October 05, 1999
Mom gets 17 years for beating 7-year-old daughter to death
BY DAN HORN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Belanda Moore told a judge Monday that she was suffering from stress and depression when she beat her daughter to death earlier this year.
The judge, however, said her suffering didn't compare to the pain she inflicted on the 7-year-old girl.
“There can be no justification for your conduct,” said Judge Robert Kraft. “This is a senseless act of violence.”
The judge then sentenced Ms. Moore to 17 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter and child endangering.
Ms. Moore, 29, was convicted in August of beating her daughter, Jas mine, so severely on Feb. 12 that she died hours later.
Prosecutors said the Winton Hills woman struck the girl with a rolled up belt and stomped on her chest as punishment for misbehaving at school.
During her trial, assistant prosecutor Richard Gibson said Ms. Moore spent the next several hours drinking vodka and playing cards with friends.
All the while, he said, her daughter was slowly dying in her bed from internal injuries, including a lacerated liver.
At her sentencing Monday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, Ms. Moore asked the judge to free her on probation. She said she now had “a caring and loving spirit.”
She said she needed treatment for high stress and other problems.
“I ask that you release me,” she said. “I'm sorry this ever happened.”
Judge Kraft told her she could get the help she needs in prison.
Ms. Moore also was charged with murder and another count of child endangering for failing to seek medical help for the child, but the jury could not reach unanimous verdicts on those counts.
Prosecutors said they will not seek another trial on the murder charge because the sentence imposed Monday is close to what she would have received if convicted of that crime.
If found guilty of murder, she could have been sentenced to 15 years to life.
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