A Georgia woman who was found guilty Monday of starving her 10-year-old stepdaughter down to 32 pounds and setting fire to her emaciated body in a trash can has been sentenced to death.
Tiffany Moss, 36, of Georgia.Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP
Moss sat stone-faced when she learned her fate, which is how she reacted during the trial, where she represented herself and said very little, the outlets report.
She made no opening statement or closing argument and called no witnesses, the Associated Press reports.
Before the jury made its decision to sentence Moss to death, Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter argued that she didn’t deserve a sentence of life with parole, theAJCreports.
“She’s shown you too much of her capacity for cruelty,” he said. “There will always be that dark side waiting to come out.”
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He added: “She’s never going to think about that child again.”
‘Emani Lived With the Evils of This World’
During the trial, jurors learned of the horrors the child endured during her short life and how she died alone in her room while the rest of her family carried on as usual.
“She died on Oct 29 alone in that bed,in her own filth and her own waste while her own brother ran around outside playing,” Gwinnett County Asst. District Attorney Lisa Jones said in closing arguments Monday morning, local station 11 Alive reports.
Emani Moss, 10.Facebook
“Emani Moss lived with the evils of this world,” Jones said, Fox 5 Atlanta reports. “That child was nothing to her.”
Eman Moss is serving a sentence of life in prison without parole after pleading guilty in August 2015 for his role in his daughter’s death and agreeing to testify against his wife in lieu of the state seeking the death penalty against him, theAJCreports.
In the days before the little girl died, her father said he found his daughter in the bathtub, shaking violently with her eyes rolling from side to side, theAJCreports.
He put her on a mattress on a bedroom floor — but did not call for medical help.
Asked why he didn’t call 911, he replied, “I’m not God,” theAJC reports.
Police arrested Eman Moss after finding his daughter inside the trash can near their apartment, theAJCreports.
source: people.com
