Marissa Kennedy’s mom Sharon, left, has claimed she is a sufferer, regardless of being convicted of serving to batter her 10 year-old daughter to demise (Photos: Maine AG/Information Heart Maine)
A mom jailed for 48 years for beating her 10 year-old daughter to demise has demanded a brand new trial after claiming she was additionally a sufferer. Sharon Kennedy, 35, claims the choose who sentenced her for the February 2018 homicide of her daughter Marissa in Belfast, Maine did so unfairly.
Kennedy says extra consideration ought to have been given to the home abuse she suffered by the hands of boyfriend and confederate Julio Carillo. The killer mother additionally says unique trial choose Justice Robert Murray ought to have made allowances for her low IQ and mental incapacity.
Kennedy blamed each for her habits, and says they made her extra weak to manipulation by Carillo. Attorneys for Kennedy declare she might have been appearing underneath duress when she beat Marissa, and let Carillo abuse her daughter. They added {that a} 25 12 months jail sentence would have been ample punishment.
Their argument says: ‘Lay witnesses together with medical suppliers, Sharon’s household and neighbors testified about Sharon’s worry of Julio and lack of ability to kind and specific her personal ideas, opinion, or wishes within the presence of Julio.
Marissa’s stepdad Julio Carillo, pictured, is serving 55 years behind bars for her homicide (Image: Maine AG)
‘The (choose’s) try and divorce these details from the occasions resulting in Marissa’s demise reveal a misunderstanding of the character of home violence.’
Additional hearings on whether or not to grant Kennedy a retrial will happen subsequent week, the Bangor Daily News reported.
Marissa’s ordeal started when her mom married Carillo in 2015, along with her stepdad beating her with out cause, and throwing her teddy bear in a dumpster. Neighbors reported listening to the little woman scream, and the sound of her being slapped whereas begging Carillo to cease.
Kennedy is alleged to have joined within the beatings after accusing her daughter of faking accidents Carillo had inflicted, which left Marissa slurring and unable to stroll correctly.
The teen ultimately died of a coronary heart assault due to the stress, wounds, accidents and infections triggered by her mom and stepfather’s torture.
Kennedy, who was jailed in February, has since annulled her marriage to Carillo. He was jailed for 55 years in July 2019 after admitting Marissa’s homicide.
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