Torturing adoptive child to death gets rewarded with suspended sentence
Posted
May 26, 2006 at
7:13 am by
Jessica
I’m going to start calling these suspended and light sentences, “rewards”. Even the Russians think we’re whacked, and this coming from a country where an astronomical amount of children are abandoned to orphanages.
If you’re not familiar with this story, an American woman and her husband adopted a Russian baby some years ago and then tortured the 2 year old with blunt trauma to the head and the abdomen. The toddler lived in pain and agony for one day after her adoptive mother attacked and murdered the toddler.
We are sending the wrong message to people that hurt, mame, torture and kill small children.
Suspended sentence? Are you kidding me???? Apparently, all it takes is admiting you’re an alcoholic and the moronic public deems it as an acceptable excuse.
For the murder of her 2-year-old adopted Russian daughter, Peggy Sue Hilt will serve 25 years in jail, under a sentence imposed yesterday by a Prince William County judge.
“I think your conduct, at its core, is inexplicable, completely inexplicable,” Circuit Court Judge William D. Hamblen said. “The child’s death was not the product of a single act, a single blow. Her injuries were the result of a course of conduct over an extended period of time.”
And only Hilt, he added, knows the extent of it.
Hilt, 34, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in March after telling police that she punched, kicked and choked Nina Hilt at their Wake Forest, N.C., home during a rage in July. The child died a day later in Prince William, where the family was visiting friends.
“I hurt Nina,” Hilt told authorities at the time. “I choked her, and I hit her and hit her.”
The Prince William case has affected other U.S. families hoping to adopt. Russian officials initially called for a moratorium on U.S. adoptions after the death of Nina, who was the 14th adopted Russian child killed in the United States. Several Russian journalists were at the courthouse yesterday.
“It took a long time to kill the child,” Ebert said, adding that it was “a horrible, horrible case.”
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1. Rick said:
May 26, 2006 @ 5:01 pm | Quote
Her sentence wasn’t entirely suspended. Her 35 year sentence had a ten year suspension, she still will serve 25 years hard time. She is a relatively young 34 years old, she will be close to 60 when she gets out. She has lost her future, her family, and I suspect her husband before too long. Considering the sentencing guidelines for her conviction called for 12-21 years, she’s not getting off lightly.
2. Jessica said:
May 26, 2006 @ 5:17 pm | Quote
Actually 25 years is getting off lightly when you consider how much that toddler suffered.
3. Carol said:
March 26, 2008 @ 10:03 am | Quote
I have to disagree, Rick. She did get off lightly. To me she still appears to be entirely without remorse. She does, however, feel profoundly sorry for herself. Peggy Sue Hilt is still, in a curious way, assigning some sort of blame to this poor child in that she wasn’t loveable, or had some sort of attachment disorder. Since when are two year olds expected to be anything but difficult. It is our jobs as adults/parents to provide consist and compassionate care not matter what the character and/or personality of a child may be like!! Her defenses of alcoholism and the attachment disorder are outrageous. Peggy Sue Hilt betrayed so many in the most fundamental manner. I hope she lives in utter mistery.