California couple gets life without parole in torture, death of woman’s daughter

A Hawthorne couple convicted of murder and torture in the killing of the woman s -year-old daughter in were sentenced Friday Sept to life in prison without the possibility of parole officers revealed Ida Helen Brockman and Malachi Xavier Whalen were convicted by an Airport Superior Court jury in July following a -week trial prosecutors noted Related Articles Parents of missing California baby plead not guilty to murder In the incident of the missing California baby citizen journalists broke news but also spread misinformation California parents of infant killed in dog attack knew the animal was dangerous court documents show Convicted sex offender living at California daycare arrested by ICE County to pay million to relatives of -year-old California boy tortured murdered by parents They were arrested in September after taking Brockman s daughter A Miya Dawson to the urgency room of a Willowbrook hospital after she became unresponsive the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department stated At the hospital doctors determined that the girl s injuries did not line up with statements made by Brockman and Whalen Detectives also searched the couple s apartment and unveiled additional evidence sheriff s authorities commented A Miya endured physical torture encompassing individual injuries including severe burns blunt force trauma multiple fractured ribs a collapsed lung and other major internal injuries the Los Angeles County District Attorney s Office commented in a declaration following the couple s conviction A Miya whose name was spelled Amaiya by the Diagnostic Examiner s Office died of acute respiratory failure and aspiration pneumonitis a lung injury caused by inhaling foreign substances with blunt force trauma listed as a critical condition according to the Diagnostic Examiner s description Brockman also admitted to detectives that the couple had planned to try to frame A Miya s biological father for her death prosecutors reported DA Nathan Hochman revealed in a comment that the brutal murder of a defenseless -year-old girl at the hands of her own mother and her mother s boyfriend is nothing short of horrific