MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida nurse was sentenced to life in prison after her conviction in the murder of her 7-year-old adopted daughter in 2018, a report from NBC affiliate WTVJ said.
Gina Emmanuel, a 56-year-old Miami-Dade registered nurse, was convicted on April 15 of first-degree murder of Samaya, 7, and was found guilty of abuse of two other adopted children, court records show.
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According to WTVJ, prosecutors said Emmanuel abused children for months, feeding human waste, burning hands on the stove, tape them on a chair, chained them, and withholding food and water. She also reportedly locked the fridge and restricted it to certain diets.
At the trial, Dr. Emma Lu, who is in the resigned examination room, told Jue Samaya that she was injured in “from her face to her neck, from her chest, her abdomen, her abdomen, her back, both arms and her legs.”
Lew ruled the cause of death in the child as acute and chronic physical and emotional abuse, WTVJ said.
Ayana Gordon, 18, the former adopted daughter of Emmanuel, one of the survivors, said Emmanuel had obtained what she deserved.
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“If you can’t spend your time, I’m trying to get God to take this wheel,” she said. “And because they say that, I often hope you in hell.”
WTVJ reported that Emmanuel did not apologise during Wednesday’s sentencing, just as Gordon told the outlet the woman knew exactly what she had done.
“Even if she hurt me, she taught me a lot. I can carry some of them in the future, but what I don’t carry is that if I have kids, I don’t make the same mistakes she did,” Gordon told WTVJ. “Like I said, she said she was a tough cookie. I’m difficult.”
According to WTVJ, the two surviving children are doing well. Gordon is graduating from high school and will go to college to major in business.
