04-21-2015, 05:41 PM
Verdict Deliberations Underway
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Jerice Hunter didn't put on much of a defense, other than one witness who claimed to have seen the girl pulled into a car though she admits she didn't call police. Hunter never testified.
The question for jurors: Is Hunter a grieving mother or a despicable murderer?
Jhessye's body has not been found. So, is it enough…
…That Hunter was in a California prison for beating one of her other children for most of Jhessye's life, leaving the child to be raised by her cousins.
… That those cousins say Hunter, after her release from prison in 2010, never bonded with by-then 4-year-old Jhessye and that the last time they say the child in March 2011, Jhessye "looked like teeth had been hit out of her mouth."
… That Hunter's ex-lover told jurors that she left the apartment during the spring of 2011, after hearing Hunter beating Jhessye after the child spilled Play-Doh onto the carpet.
… That Jhessye's kindergarten teacher and others at the school testified that they'd seen no evidence of abuse, but that the child had been absent since Sept. 22, 2011.
… That Jhessye's sister said she'd last seen Jhessye in her mother's closet – with bruises on her body and "black stuff" oozing out of her eyes -- about a week before Hunter reported her missing. "She wanted me to take her to the bathroom but she couldn't walk that much."
… That police found a large blood stain under the carpet in Hunter's closet, though there's no way to know if it was Jhessye's without a DNA sample.
… That a neighbor said Hunter asked him to take two of her children — one of them named Jhessye — to the bus stop. Yet later, when he saw a picture of Jhessye, it wasn't the girl he'd taken to the bus stop.
… That another neighbor told jurors that on Oct. 4, 2011, Hunter asked for a ride to a Tempe apartment complex where she planned to sell a suitcase full of clothes to buy food for her children. Hunter hoisted the suitcase into the woman's trunk, refusing any help even though she was pregnant, and advised her neighbor that if she smelled anything bad, hey it was just some old shoes in the suitcase. Upon arrival at the apartment complex, the neighbor said Hunter put on rubber gloves before pulling out the suitcase and heaving it into the garbage.
Ref: http://www.azcentral.com/story/laurierob.../26080977/
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I hope it's enough for the jury to find Jerice Hunter guilty.
It's enough for me. I think the bitch abused and neglected her daughter to death, tossed her like trash, and then lied to everyone and tried to play the victim in the process.
Jerice Hunter didn't put on much of a defense, other than one witness who claimed to have seen the girl pulled into a car though she admits she didn't call police. Hunter never testified.
The question for jurors: Is Hunter a grieving mother or a despicable murderer?
Jhessye's body has not been found. So, is it enough…
…That Hunter was in a California prison for beating one of her other children for most of Jhessye's life, leaving the child to be raised by her cousins.
… That those cousins say Hunter, after her release from prison in 2010, never bonded with by-then 4-year-old Jhessye and that the last time they say the child in March 2011, Jhessye "looked like teeth had been hit out of her mouth."
… That Hunter's ex-lover told jurors that she left the apartment during the spring of 2011, after hearing Hunter beating Jhessye after the child spilled Play-Doh onto the carpet.
… That Jhessye's kindergarten teacher and others at the school testified that they'd seen no evidence of abuse, but that the child had been absent since Sept. 22, 2011.
… That Jhessye's sister said she'd last seen Jhessye in her mother's closet – with bruises on her body and "black stuff" oozing out of her eyes -- about a week before Hunter reported her missing. "She wanted me to take her to the bathroom but she couldn't walk that much."
… That police found a large blood stain under the carpet in Hunter's closet, though there's no way to know if it was Jhessye's without a DNA sample.
… That a neighbor said Hunter asked him to take two of her children — one of them named Jhessye — to the bus stop. Yet later, when he saw a picture of Jhessye, it wasn't the girl he'd taken to the bus stop.
… That another neighbor told jurors that on Oct. 4, 2011, Hunter asked for a ride to a Tempe apartment complex where she planned to sell a suitcase full of clothes to buy food for her children. Hunter hoisted the suitcase into the woman's trunk, refusing any help even though she was pregnant, and advised her neighbor that if she smelled anything bad, hey it was just some old shoes in the suitcase. Upon arrival at the apartment complex, the neighbor said Hunter put on rubber gloves before pulling out the suitcase and heaving it into the garbage.
Ref: http://www.azcentral.com/story/laurierob.../26080977/
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I hope it's enough for the jury to find Jerice Hunter guilty.
It's enough for me. I think the bitch abused and neglected her daughter to death, tossed her like trash, and then lied to everyone and tried to play the victim in the process.