Riley Ann Sawyer was just two years old when the pieces of crap that passed for her mother and stepfather decided she needed to be disciplined for not consistently saying "please" and "thank you."
Because Riley, like most two-year-olds, was not performing to this ridiculous standard, her mother (and I use that word loosely and with the greatest contempt) and stepfather beat her, dunked her under water, and eventually threw her so hard onto a tile floor that she died of her injuries.
Then they stuffed the body in a plastic bin and dumped it out to sea.
God has a way of bringing the truth to light and a fisherman found the bin washed up on an island in Galveston Bay.
Today, stepfather Royce Ziegler was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison with no parole. Riley's mother, Kimberly Trenor, was convicted earlier this year and is also serving a life sentence.
Normally, I would advocate the death penalty for these two but in retrospect I think they've been dealt a far worse hand. Ms. Trenor will have to live with the horror of her actions for the rest of her life. She's young, not yet 30, so that's a long time to be locked away in physical and mental hell.
Fine by me.
The stepfather will have his own row to hoe, as we say in Texas. It's common knowledge that convicted felons, no matter their own crimes, reserve a special sort of hatred for their criminal brethren who have committed crimes against children.
None of this brings little Riley Sawyer back, but at least justice has been served.
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