Texas mom Elizabeth Escalona pleads guilty to beating daughter, gluing her to wall

This undated photo from the Dallas County Sheriff's Department shows Elizabeth Escalona. / AP/Dallas County Sheriff

(AP) DALLAS - A Texas woman has pleaded guilty to injury to a child, acknowledging she beat her 2-year-old daughter and glued the girl's hands to a wall.

The Dallas Morning News reported that Elizabeth Escalona told reporters as she left the courtroom Thursday: "Only God can judge me. That's all I gotta say."

Her daughter was in a coma for two days after the Sept. 7 incident. The girl and her siblings were then taken into state custody.

Police records show that the toddler's siblings told investigators their mother kicked the girl in the stomach repeatedly and hit her with various objects before gluing her hands to the wall.

Dallas police say Escalona was mad about potty training problems.

Escalona faces up to life in prison. Sentencing is set for Sept. 10.

[Hank_Jones]

This is an OUTRAGE. Once again the OBAMA Communist Goverment is INVADING are Private Life!!!!! There is No Excuse for the Goverment to Steal a CHild from its own home & take it to be "brainwash" in a Comunist CAmp run by the Goverment & taught to Hate Jesus and pray to Allah. Let Parents be Parents and Discipline how they see fit. It is there GOD GIVEN Right.

"Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child" PROVERBS 13:24

[vas1013]

You are an ass.

[LouangeFM]

It's true, it is completely terrible and deserves great punishment. As for us, because we often do worse in act or language. Yet we ask clemency. We ask that we do not deserve. (Mercy, forgiveness). In writing this I do not excuse his act, but ... Would not it better to pray for her instead of the condemned? We have perhaps never like her, but probably worse, tearing a couple who has been blessed by God, or doing something else. We all know the causes of the great tear. And I only talk about it .. How many times do we foul things in secret, without anyone being aware person, and we call "evil good and good evil." Remember that we will be judged in the same way we judge others. And remember the words of Jesus Christ who is Savior of us all ... Let anyone among us who has never committed any fault, facing death to this poor woman who needs help, not hate. Otherwise we prove that we are not better. Fraternally!

[bjmou]

wow...guess thats what you get from a bunch of ********. they seem to be more brutal then the average person

[gingermavy]

Unbelievably butt ugly person.

[SUZAMBA]

I only hope that the child and children will find a home where they will be cared for. Where maybe, they can see that not all humans are cruel and sick minded.

[ijusthavetosay12]

Why are people like this having children at all?! Hate to say it, Elizabeth, but you are going to prison for a LONG LONG time! You will have lots of time to think about God's judgement of you. This hateful life is what you created? How embarrassing for you.

[coriolana]

Only God can judge her? Think again, you sorry excuse for a human. You're about to find out.

[Abigail79413]

The woman is very sick or just plain mean. Once a mother or father or anyone else is convicted of child abuse they should be neutered and the existing children taken away. And they should never be allowed to lived with another person's children. There should be laws in place to protect children permanently - not temporarily

[gopack443]

"Only God can judge me. That's all I gotta say." And the judge.

[XXXBorg]

And all of the women inmates (some of whom are in prison for violent crimes and have life sentences, thus nothing to lose) who tend to be very protective of kids. But I'm sure you will do just fine.
And everyone else around the whole freaking planet if she ever lives long enough to get out of prison.
I hope she gets what she did to that poor little girl done to her every day for the rest of her life. I also hope they don't kill her in prison (at least not until its her last week there)

[LunaAzule]

The church says: "You must as many children as possible or you'll go to hell"
The women says: "But, I'm frazzled with the ones I already have"
The church says: "If you don't have as many as possible, you'll go to hell"
The mother says: "OK. Here is another. A baby girl"
The baby girl say's through broken teeth, jaw and ribs: "Why am I in hell?"

[SimplyFab]

How about just using birth control or abstinence.

[KPeters_from_UK]

SimplyFab,
Haven't you heard the Church is vehemently opposed to birth control...any birth control even condoms.