Couple in “Baby Grace” trial makes me sick

I’ve been captivated by the trail of Kimberly Dawn Trenor, the mother of the little girl dubbed Baby Grace.
Since our country has laws stating we are innocent until proven guilty, I’ll lay off my deep personal feelings about Trenor and her husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler II.
Two-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers was tortured to death, her body stuffed inside a plastic container and stored in a shed before she was dumped in Galveston Bay.
All part of a discipline lesson to teach her manners.
“In her final hours, 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers screamed as she was whipped with leather belts that turned her skin black and blue and was dragged by her hair into a bathroom where her head was repeatedly dunked into a tub of cold water — all part of a discipline session to teach her manners,” Trenor said in a videotaped statement shown during her capital murder trail as reported by The Galveston Daily News.
But the brutality didn’t stop there. Trenor blames Zeigler for violently throwing the child several times across the family room causing the tot to hit her head on the tile floor. Autopsy results conclude her death was caused by skull fractures.
The mother, near the end of her statement, said she never meant for “what happened to happen.”
I started this blog wanting to rant and rave about these atrocities, delve into the fear this innocent child must have felt as she was about to die allegedly at the hands of someone who loved her, express sadness at the fact she was stuffed into a plastic tub partly filled with cement and left to rot for two months like garbage before being tossed into Galveston Bay.
Then there’s the anger and frustration I feel. I remember reading stories of how a fisherman found the tub containing Riley’s remains in October 2007 and the ensuing coverage where authorities asked for the public’s help in identifying the mystery child dubbed Baby Grace.
There’s sympathy for the Ohio grandmother, Sheryl Sawyers, who saw an artist’s sketch and believed the unidentified child was her granddaughter — and it was.
The mother could receive an automatic life sentence without parole if convicted of capital murder or the jury could also convict her of a lesser charge.
Prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty against either her or Zeigler, 25, because they didn't think they could prove that the pair would be a future danger, a requirement for such a punishment, according to The Galveston Daily News.
So, what are your feelings on the case?
Mary Meaux, Port Arthur News