Elizabeth Escalona, Texas mom who beat, glued kid's hands to wall, faces life term

By: Crimesider Staff
Topics: 911 ,; Daily Blotter

Dallas County Sheriff's Dept. photo of Elizabeth Escalona

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

/ AP/Dallas County Sheriff

(CBS/AP) DALLAS -- Elizabeth Escalona, a Texas woman who admitted to beating her 2-year-old daughter and gluing her hands to a wall, could face life in prison.

Escalona pleaded guilty July 12 to injury to a child. The young mother is scheduled to be sentenced Monday.

Her daughter was in a coma for two days after the Sept. 7, 2011, incident. The girl and her siblings have since been taken into state custody. Police records show 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. She was in a hospital for a week.

Dallas police say Escalona was mad about potty training problems.

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by maizieful October 12, 2012 2:03 PM EDT: Unfortunately there is a lot of horrific child abuse cases in this country. Phoenix, AZ is loaded with it. She is one of many terrible child abusers but in this case she was caught.; Reply to this comment


by cbsblogger October 9, 2012 9:11 PM EDT: Unfortunately for America she is representative of the losers that are taking over our once prosperous nation.; Reply to this comment


by Sid235 October 9, 2012 1:42 PM EDT: This monster must be incarcerated for a minimum of 25 years at hard labor - i.e. she will spend all her remaining reproductive years in jail. Thus, she will never bear a child again. It looks like she has several already. Since no husband is mentioned, was she having them at the expense of the state? And, to make sure, she should be surgically made infertile. I trust she is beaten in jail by fellow inmates so she can experience what she did to the little girl.; Reply to this comment


by Freetony123 October 9, 2012 12:43 PM EDT: She should go to jail forever. What do you mean 'a life sentence is too long?' I hope this lady is beaten harshly in jail. She is scum!; Reply to this comment

by Aine57 October 9, 2012 11:29 AM EDT

What this mother did is horrible, but life in prison? That is what some of the worst murderers in the United States get, particularly where there is no death penalty on the table. As terrible as she is, it is too much, but she should definitely get some heavy time. And where once I thought that sterilizing people was evil, I'm leaning that way now.

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by Continue3 October 9, 2012 3:38 PM EDT: You do realize she kicked her own child who is 2 years old , multiple times , and then thought in her sick mind to go find glue and push the glue out of the bottle and onto her two year olds hands and then stuck her hands to the wall all while the poor baby was probably freaking out ... U think sterilizing her is going to prevent her from hurting another child already in the world ...come on she's obviously mentally ill she doesn't deserve to be in society!!!!


by jimwassel October 12, 2012 1:33 PM EDT: Aine57... you f**king lowlife. This woman deserves the death penalty for abusing an innocent two year old. How can you even intimate that her penalty was too harsh. Maybe you would like to be kicked in the stomach multiple times, hit in the head with a jug, have your hands super glued to a wall and go into a coma for days! Then I would like to hear your opinion of the punishment your attacker should get. This Mexican ***** is probably an illegal and doesn't even know who fathered her child. Why we waste tax payers dollars paying for her incarceration is beyong me. Send her to the chair and get it over with!


by jimwassel October 12, 2012 1:36 PM EDT: Aine57... you f**king lowlife. This woman deserves the death penalty for abusing an innocent two year old. How can you even intimate that her penalty was too harsh. Maybe you would like to be kicked in the stomach multiple times, hit in the head with a jug, have your hands super glued to a wall and go into a coma for days! Then I would like to hear your opinion of the punishment your attacker should get. This Mexican ***** is probably an illegal and doesn't even know who fathered her child. Why we waste tax payers dollars paying for her incarceration is beyong me. Send her to the chair and get it over with!


by Echo728 October 13, 2012 9:40 AM EDT: No doubt this woman is evil. Do you hear yourself s...hoping she gets beat. We are going to fix a 'problem' with the same level of thinking that she tried to fix hers with? Really, no wonder this country is in such sad shape with this men tail!
And her being hispanic or an illegal here ' is irrelevant. Most perpetrators, including mine were 'good' white men. Who by the way, not to many generations back, here ancestors were on a boat here and considered illegals and not wanted here!
Wake up folks, she is evil but stick to reason!


by magnumdr October 9, 2012 11:13 AM EDT: The authorities should glue her vagina shut because she is a very poor excuse for a mother and should never be allowed to have children ever again.; Reply to this comment


by mbstone October 9, 2012 7:06 AM EDT: The headline is misleading. The obvious inference is that she is not "facing life," since she pled guilty. If life imprisonment is still on the table, and presumably that's the maximum sentence she could get, why wouldn't she roll the dice and go to trial? Presumably her attorneys made a deal for a lesser sentence.; Reply to this comment

by easydoesitron October 9, 2012 2:59 AM EDT

Definitely a horrible tragedy and the mother should be jailed for life. I do wonder what the mother's childhood was like. I am not attempting to justify her actions, it's just that mother's seldom treat their children so poorly.

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by facelessdrone2005 October 9, 2012 7:50 AM EDT: A few months in jail would be fine, but not jail for life. That merely punishes the taxpayers. More important to STERILIZE her so she never does this again.

by SUZAMBA October 8, 2012 8:17 PM EDT

No one has a right to do this to a child, not even a parent. What ever punishment she is give, she deserves every bit of it. This person should never be allowed to have any children ever! I hear they don't like her kind in prison?

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by Freetony123 October 9, 2012 12:45 PM EDT: Ohhh, I hope they find out about her and she dies in prison. What she did is just as bad as murder. Children are innocent and she is scum.