SAN DIEGO — A San Diego mother who tortured her daughter with punches, kicks and insults for 17 months, until her blows killed the 9-year-old last year, was sent to prison Tuesday for a term of 15 years to life.
Elizabeth Holloway is shown on Christmas Eve 2010 at a family party. The 9-year-old died Jan. 17, 2011, after a blow to her body by her mother, Crystal Cardenas. — Family photo
Willie Holloway Jr. speaks in San Diego Superior Court on Tuesday during the sentencing of his daughter's mother, Crystal Cardenas, in the girl's killing. Elizabeth Holloway was 9 when she died. — K.C. Alfred
San Diego Superior Court Judge Eugenie Eyherabide sentenced Crystal Cardenas, 27, for the second-degree murder of Elizabeth Holloway.
Faced with a torrent of scorn and anger from family members in the downtown courtroom, Cardenas bowed her head and cried at times.
Elizabeth’s father, Willie Holloway Jr., wiped tears from his eyes, looked at Cardenas and told her, “I don’t know how you could do this to her. I just want justice. I’m going to leave it in God’s hands.”
He then turned and bolted from the room.
His father, Willie Holloway Sr., told the judge he felt partly to blame for not knowing what was happening to his granddaughter.
“Who would stoop that low to do that,” he said.
How horrible, I think she needs to serve a life sentence.
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