Grandmother Convicted in Death of Slain Granddaughter Who Kept Diary of Her Abuse
woman whose granddaughter wrote in a diary throughout the torturous abuse she suffered has been convicted of the girl's murder. A Cook County judge convicted 55-year-old Helen Ford on Thursday of first degree murder in the beating death of her 8-year-old granddaughter, Gizzell Ford. Prosecutors argued that the girl, nicknamed Gizzy, was routinely and ruthlessly beaten by her grandmother. She was found dead in July 2013 and details of the gruesome state of her body were later released along with pages from the once-promising student's diary. ...
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