Death penalty sought against Utah couple who tortured daughter to death

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against a Utah couple accused of taunting their malnourished 3-year-old daughter with food before she died.

The state filed the notice Tuesday in the case of 25-year-old Miller Costello and 23-year-old Brenda Emile.

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The Ogden couple is accused of recording cellphone videos of themselves taunting Angelina Costello as her condition worsened before her July 2017 death.


According to Fox 13, the couple was arrested July 6 after police received a 911 call reporting the girl was not breathing. Prosecutors say she had been dead for some time when police arrived.

She had bruising, contusions, lacerations, burns, open sores and abrasions all over her face, hands, legs, head and neck.

“The child victim’s facial features were also sunken in, void of definition from muscle or fat. Some of the child victim’s injuries appeared recent and acute while other injuries appeared to be in various stages of healing," a probable cause statement said.

Emile allegedly admitted to covering the child in makeup to conceal some injuries “so they didn’t look as bad.”

“It’s the worst case of child abuse I’ve ever seen,” Ogden police officer Chris Bishop said at the hearing, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Another officer said the child "looked like a Holocaust victim.”

Horrific evidence has been shown depicting what prosecutors call "a life of torture."

In one video shot months before the girl's death, Angelina is seen eating slices of an onion as blood runs from her nose. In another video, the girl is offered a forkful of scrambled eggs before it is taken away.

“Haha, no food for you,” the mother tells the child.

Both Emile and Costello pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder charges. Costello has told investigators that he knew of Angelina's deteriorating health, but said his wife would get mad at him if he fed her.

Emile’s attorney Martin Gravis has also argued there was no definitive evidence to suggest she caused the girl’s death. A judge, though, disagreed and pointed to the allegation that Emile used makeup to conceal the girl’s injuries.

If the couple is convicted, prosecutors would push for capital punishment in a separate sentencing hearing.
 

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This kind of this happened near my home town a mother and her boyfriend beat her 4 year old daughter to death. The woman got 19 years for first degree murder the boyfriend is still waiting his sentencing. But that's bullshit only 19 years for murder of her own child.
 

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The one thing I don't get is why push for the death penalty? It seems like an awfully easy out compared to the suffering some violent crimes visit on their victims and is obviously not a deterrent for some.





Granted it's a comedy piece, but many a true word is spoken in jest. The general idea Carlin puts forth makes more sense than spending however many thousands it takes to put these bastards out of our misery and just maybe people like those in the OP might think twice about pulling that kind of shit if they had a round the clock reference point of what was in store for them if and when they went overboard.