GUILTY TX - Leiliana Wright, 4, beaten to death, Grand Prairie, 13 March 2016

[Spellbound]

Matt Peterson@tweeterson Dallas News
40 min
4-year-old Leiliana Wright suffered like no child Grand Prairie cop had seen before, he testifies in Dallas murder trial |


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Maria Guerrero@Maria_NBC5
6h
Sgt w/@GrandPrairiePD
testimony recalling seeing 4yo Leiliana Wright’s body during autopsy; asked about condition of her little body: “It was the worst thing I have ever seen inflicted on a child

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Lori Brown@LoriBrownFox4
Jeri Quezada’s mother, grandmother of Leiliana Wright, showed no emotion as she testified about the last time she saw the 4 year old asleep. Adeline Carr, a retired swim coach, admitted that her daughter can be a liar.
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[Niner]

Updated summary of Wednesday trial coverage
Grand Prairie 4-year-old spent final day beaten and bound in a closet, her mother testifies at boyfriend's murder trial | Courts | Dallas News

If someone could give me the witnesses if listed on the Dallas News article above in quote!

I can't access it here.

All I have is Jeri Quezada & Det. Malkoy for yesterday. And for first day of trial - I have this:
10/9/18 Update Day 1: Trial started today. Opening statements. State Witnesses: Andrew Grondin, EMT. Jeri Quezada.

and for Day 2 - I only have Quezada. If that correct? TIA!

and the twitter account you listed Spellz - she sure doesn't let you know "who" is on the stand - meaning names!!

 

[Niner]

Thank you Spellz for posting tweets!

 

[Niner]

Okay - here's what I have - please correct if NOT right! The red are updates. But Day 2 might have more witnesses??

Friday, Oct. 12th:
*Trial Continues (Day 4) / Other Hearing (@ 8am/9am CT) - TX - Leiliana Rose Wright (4) (March 13, 2016) (beaten to death for drinking bro’s juice) – *Charles Wayne Phifer (34) (BF) indicted (8/16/17) with 2 counts of capital murder and 1 count felony injury of a child; held on $1M bond; plead not guilty.
8/3/18: Still awaiting DNA results, same of 8/6 & 8/9.
8/9/18 Update: Still awaiting DNA results, hearing continued to 10/9 & set trial date.
10/9/18 Update Day 1: Trial started today. Opening statements. State Witnesses: Andrew Grondin, EMT. Jeri Quezada.
10/10/18 Update Day 2: State Witness: Jeri Quezada.
10/11/18 Update Day 3: State Witnesses: Jeri Quezada. Grand Prairie police sergeant Brad Makovy. Adeline Carr, a retired swim coach, Quezada’s mother, grandmother of Leiliana Wright, showed no emotion as she testified about the last time she saw the 4 year old asleep. Admitted that her daughter can be a liar.
10/12/18 Update: “Other” hearing scheduled for 9am on 10/12.
*Jeri Renee Quezada (30), "Mom" plead guilty (7/6/16) to 1 count of felony injury of a child as part of plea bargain & will testify at BF’s trial and be sentenced to 50 years after trial.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Leiliana's death exposed a crisis at Child Protective Services, prompting firings, resignations and finger-pointing at the state agency charged with protecting abused children.

Prosecutors showed the jury Chandler's photos from the crime scene, including images of the bamboo switch Phifer is accused of beating Leiliana to death with, as well as a pair of little girls' jeans tangled up in three belts. Later, Chandler held up the switch, the belts, and the pants before the jury.

Crime-scene investigator Amanda Page testified that officials cut out a piece of the wall inside the closet where Leiliana's mother said the little girl had been tied up. Grand Prairie crime-scene team lead Christine Smith testified that she'd been asked to preserve a hair that had gotten stuck in the wall.

Later, forensic analyst Kristen Smith testified that the hair was consistent with a DNA profile for Leliana.

Testimony in the trial will continue Friday morning.

4-year-old suffered like no child Grand Prairie cop had seen before, he testifies in murder trial | Courts | Dallas News

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The trial continues Thursday for the man accused of beating his girlfriend’s daughter to death in 2016. The death of four-year-old Leiliana Wright rocked North Texas after gruesome details emerged from the case.
She was back on the stand Thursday and talked about the torture her daughter endured before she was killed.
Mother Of 4-Year-Old North Texas Girl Beaten To Death Takes Stand

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Testimony will continue Friday in a deadly child abuse case that exposed the failings of the Texas child protective services system.

Leiliana Wright, 4, spent her last day on Earth beaten and bound in a closet at her Grand Prairie home in March 2016, according to the testimony of her mother, Jeri Quezada, who has already pleaded guilty to her role in the incident. Wright died as a result of blunt force injuries to her head and stomach.
Deadly Child Abuse Trial Continues Friday

 

[Spellbound]

Niner, this is the best I can do for witnesses. Reporting has not always been thorough so I had to look through articles here and our posts to gather this list:

Trial for Charles Wayne Phifer, 36,
charged with capital murder. faces possibility of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Wednesday 10/10/2018
Andrew Grondin, Gand Prairie firefighter who tried to save Leiliana. He told how the little girl was covered with bruises, black eye, ligature marks on wrists, she was limp and cold, as he choked back tears.
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Jeri Quezada, mother of Leiliana

Thursday 10/11/2018
Jeri Quezada, mother, second day in stand

Adeline Carr, mother of Quezada, grandmother of Leiliana. retired Grand Prairie Swim Coach. Said she never saw signs of abuse or drug use.

[Carr showed no emotion during her testimony. During cross-examination, she claimed not to be aware of her daughter’s ongoing drug abuse, including the day of Leiliana’s death. But she also acknowledged knowing her daughter could be deceitful. Testimony continues in 4-year-old Grand Prairie girl's murder trial ]

Grand Prairie police sergeant Brad Makovy (was a child abuse detective who investigated the case in 2016). Was present for the autopsy.

Samantha Chandler, crime scene investigator/photographer with Grand Prairie Police.

Grand Prairie Detective Brandon Poor said even officers who had seen grisly crime scenes were shaken

Crime-scene investigator Amanda Page: cut out a piece of the wall from the closet

crime-scene team lead Christine Smith: had been asked to preserve a hair that was stuck in the wall.

forensic analyst Kristen Smith: the hair was consistent with Leliana's DNA profile

Friday 10/12/2018
Medical examiner expected to take stand

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The mother of a beaten 4-year-old Grand Prairie girl said her memory of what happened the day she died is limited.

Jeri Quezada took the stand again Thursday in the capital murder trial for her ex-boyfriend, Charles Phifer.

Quezada’s mother, Adeline Carr, is a retired Grand Prairie Swim Coach and the grandmother of Leiliana. She did not answer questions as she left the courtroom.

Carr showed no emotion during her testimony. During cross-examination, she claimed not to be aware of her daughter’s ongoing drug abuse, including the day of Leiliana’s death. But she also acknowledged knowing her daughter could be deceitful.

In addition to claiming she did not see any signs of her daughter’s drug use, Carr also said she never saw signs of abuse against her granddaughter. She told jurors Leiliana loved to color, play with chalk and read stories.
http://www.fox4news.com/news/testimony-continues-in-4-year-old-grand-prairie-girls-murder-trial

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Testimony will resume Friday morning in the trial of a man accused of beating his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter to death.

Wright’s death became a scathing indictment of systemic Child Protective Services failures.

“If I testify truthfully, then I will be sentenced to 50 years in prison,” Quezada told jurors Thursday while dressed in a jail inmate jumpsuit.


According to testimony from both Quezada and Carr, the family went out to dinner and left Phifer at home to watch Leiliana. Quezada returned home and testified that she and Phifer used heroin before she inquired about her daughter. According to police testimony, that’s when Phifer told her “that the child had been hung in the closet.”
Child’s Beating Death Uncovered CPS Failures: Mother’s Boyfriend On Trial

 

[katy_did_not]

Hey everyone, please say extra prayers, send extra good vibes, for the paternal grandparents. They are not doing well, especially the grandmother, during this trial.

 

[Julindy]

Thinking of the paternal parents at this traumatic time sending you prayers and big hugs.xxxx

 

[Julindy]

A few twitter updates throughout the trial, grandma was on the stand today; a doctor became emotional describing how the little girl was already dead on arriving at the hospial but they tried to save her anyway.

Search Twitter - Leiliana Wright

God bless that Doctor, I couldn't even Imagine what she went through then and still is..heartbreaking,
Also thoughts go out to the paramedics and Firefighters, prayers for you brave guys as well

 

[cvaldez1975]

This was awful to read.

it was. I just want to put my face in my hand and cry as well. why?

 

[Spellbound]

Hey everyone, please say extra prayers, send extra good vibes, for the paternal grandparents. They are not doing well, especially the grandmother, during this trial.

Oh no, I was so worried about them. It hurts me to see your post and know they are in such pain. Thank you, katy_did_not.

It is good to see you again .... we have been together here for over a year, since last September, waiting and caring. I have worrried over the paternal grandparents for so long. I do hope they have community support through and after this. Their pain will not end with the trial.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

This whole thread breaks my heart. This is an older video.

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[imstilla.grandma]

Hey everyone, please say extra prayers, send extra good vibes, for the paternal grandparents. They are not doing well, especially the grandmother, during this trial.

Dear Lord, I can’t say it in words. Can you please just listen through my heart and bless these grandparents? Amen.

 

[Julindy]

This whole thread breaks my heart. This is an older video.

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Broke my heart watching that video

 

[Spellbound]

Quezada's other children: her first three children now live with their father. Her youngest, now lives with his paternal grandparents.

Defense rested, called no witnesses.
Closing arguments on Monday..


Warning .... graphic details in post

Girl, 4, suffered 'death of a thousand cuts,' medical examiner says at Dallas murder trial | Courts | Dallas News

Four-year-old Leiliana Wright was black and blue from head to toe and had at least 30 bruises on her back after she was beaten to death in 2016, a medical examiner testified Friday.

Prosecutors rested their case Friday after a medical examiner testified about the extent of Leiliana's injuries. Her entire body was covered in bruises and abrasions. She died from blunt-force injuries to her abdomen and head.

"It's a death of a thousand cuts," said Marc Krouse, chief deputy medical examiner in Tarrant County.

Several jurors cried and looked away after they were shown the autopsy photos of Leiliana's body. Bruises covered nearly her entire face and peppered her body. Krouse estimated her back had at least 30 separate bruises that looked like whip marks.

Med. examiner: ...
most of the bruises and wounds on Leiliana's body after her death were fresh and that the recent beating was the cause of her death.

The autopsy found at least one healing bruise and an abscess in the little girl's bowel from an abdominal injury that probably had occurred in the days before her death, the medical examiner testified.

 

[Niner]

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Oh that poor little girl.....

JUSTICE is coming Leiliana!!