GADSDEN, Ala. -- A woman accused of running her 9-year-old granddaughter to death as punishment for eating chocolate was captured on a school bus videotape saying she planned to run the child "'til she can't run no more," a prosecutor told a judge Thursday in announcing capital murder charges.
Joyce Hardin Garrard, who faces a potential death penalty if convicted, made the comment to the driver of Savannah Hardin's bus, which was equipped with a surveillance system, said Marcus Reid, an assistant district attorney in Etowah County.
Angered by a supposed lie the child told the day before, Garrard told the driver: '"I gonna run her 'til she can't run no more,'" Reid said.
"That's exactly what she did," said the prosecutor, calling Garrard a "drill sergeant from hell."
I feel so sorry for that little girl, the cramps and exhaustion that she was forced to run through before she collapsed. It's just sad. Both the stepother and the grandmother deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
ReplyDeleteI don't see how the father can even support either of these women. One ran his little girl to death and the other did nothing to stop it.
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