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Oct. 4, 2023, 1:10 p.m. ET
A Texas mother has been jailed for 75 years after she tortured a lady for months by locking her in a canine crate, ravenous her and dousing her in boiling water.
Alicia Calderon, 37, was sentenced Tuesday over the “sadistic torture” of the then-24-year-old after she hoodwinked the young lady into residing together with her in a trailer in Wylie, north of Dallas, prosecutors said.
“Calderon tricked the victim into living with her and then controlled her with unthinkable torture,” Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis stated within the wake of her sentencing.
“She severely burned the victim’s arms, chest, and back by pouring a pot of boiling water on her. She also deprived her of food, locked her in a dog crate, and cut off her communication to the outside world.”
The brutalization began in 2019 when the sufferer, recognized by FOX4 as Simone Valdez-Junkin, moved into her abuser’s household trailer to assist look after Calderon’s kids and a disabled elderly lady in alternate without cost lease, prosecutors stated.
After a number of months, Calderon began taking away the sufferer’s telephone, limiting her meals and finally locked her in a room with the elderly lady.
The torture escalated when the sufferer, who had misplaced greater than half her physique weight by then, was caught stealing a few of Calderon’s meals in July 2021, prosecutors stated.
Calderon locked the sufferer within the canine crate and poured boiling water over her legs as punishment. Then, a number of months later, the abuser doused the sufferer’s arms, chest and again with boiling water once more.
The young lady was left with extreme burns, which Calderon refused to let her search remedy for, in accordance with prosecutors.
The sufferer’s household alerted authorities in February final yr after the young lady managed to get access to a telephone and ship her stepfather a Facebook message begging for assist.
When authorities responded to the trailer, they discovered the malnourished sufferer weighing simply 68 kilos. She was additionally lined in second and third-degree burns and had her head shaved, prosecutors stated.
“It took me about a week and a half before I really could register that that was my daughter,” the sufferer’s mother, Farrah Junkin, advised FOX4. “She was just skin. Literally skin hanging off of her bones.”
The young lady, who underwent a number of surgical procedures and pores and skin grafts, spent six weeks recovering within the hospital within the wake of her rescue.
Meanwhile, the elderly relative’s situation had deteriorated so badly that the responding officers initially thought she was lifeless.
During Calderon’s sentencing, prosecutors stated the abuser had stolen almost $78,000 from the disabled lady through social safety checks and inheritance.
Calderon blew the stolen money on tattoo outlets, a celebration rental place and new tire rims, prosecutors stated.
The relationship between Calderon and the elderly lady wasn’t instantly clear. The elderly sufferer’s situation additionally wasn’t identified.
Calderon was sentenced after a jury discovered her responsible of aggravated assault with a lethal weapon inflicting severe bodily harm to a family member.
Prosecutors allege her husband, Joseph Calderon, was additionally concerned and have since charged him with elderly exploitation and abuse.
He is at the moment out on bond awaiting trial.
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