After reading the story below I recalled my aw recounting how she'd been physically abused by her father. Perhaps the emotional effect of this played some role in her recent alcoholism.
The visual imagery invoked by the description of a 4 year old child "seen standing as if in a "vigil" at her bedroom window is very difficult to think about. A child in pain and agony not even understanding why, looking out her window at a world she would never get to see.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A young mother and her partner were jailed for life on Friday for murdering her four-year-old daughter after subjecting the child to horrific abuse.
Sharon Wright and McKenzie-Seaton were found guilty at Bradford Crown Court of killing Leticia Wright.
Wright, 23, and McKenzie-Sean, 22, denied murdering the child at their home in Huddersfield in November last year.
The court heard during a four-week trial how Leticia was found naked and suffering multiple injuries, including to her head and abdomen equivalent to a major road traffic accident.
The police officer in charge of the investigation described the case as the worst he had ever been involved in.
"This has truly been an horrific case," Detective Superintendent Paul Taylor of West Yorkshire Police said.
Taylor described Wright and McKenzie-Seaton as "very unpleasant people" who had not been fit to look after a child. "These two people wanted to be together and Leticia was in the way," he said.
The couple was handed a minimum sentence of 23 years each for the girl's murder.
In the weeks before the death, the girl was seen standing as if in a "vigil" at her bedroom window, according to media reports. The girl looked sad but would smile and wave back at the neighbours who waved up at her.
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