sobs uncontrollably during sentencing for starving death of 4-year-old boy
A Texas stepmother shook and sobbed uncontrollably on the stand Thursday as she desperately insisted to a jury that she wasn’t responsible for torturing and starving her stepson to death.
Miranda Casarez’s crocodile tears did little to sway the panel, which hit her with a 25-year sentence for the gruesome death of 4-year-old Benjamin “Benji” Cervera.
The Texas woman, 25, took the stand after the jury had found her guilty the day before of injury to a child by omission causing serious bodily injury, a first-degree felony, San Antonio Express-News reported.