Authorities: Utah parents taunted malnourished child

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press
Updated 5:06 pm, Tuesday, July 11, 2017





SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah couple accused in the death of their toddler daughter taunted the malnourished child with food and attempted to cover her injuries with makeup, prosecutors said in charges filed Tuesday.

Authorities say they found cellphone videos that show the 3-year-old girl's condition growing progressively worse over the year and a half before her "extremely malnourished" body was found at the family's home.

 
Angelina Costello's mother and father were both charged with aggravated murder, which carries the possibility of the death penalty.

. . .

The videos found on the parents' phones show Angelina's parents, Brenda Emile, 22, and Miller Costello, 25, apparently presenting the girl with food, and then taking it away and disciplining her, police said in charging documents.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Prosecutors-Parents-taunted-malnourished-child-11280957.php

[whathehell]

1. What the fuck is wrong with people?!

Sick, sick, sick.

[iluvtennis]

5. Yep, SMDH. WTF.

[whathehell]

11. -----

I see SMDH all the time, and I don't know what it means.

[3catwoman3]

15. Shaking My Damn Head.

Urban Dictionary is a great source for questions like these.

[iluvtennis]

19. Yep.

[Judi Lynn]

16. Shaking My Damned Head.

[whathehell]

21. Thanks, Judy

[sinkingfeeling]

14. But, don't you know that every child is wanted and loved from the moment of

conception?

[dhill926]

2. hope they both enjoy...

a long and exceedingly miserable life in the penitentiary....

[DK504]

12. There will be special hell for those two handed over

to them when they get to prison. Even the toughest in prison don't tolerate people like that.

[Tess49]

3. Assholes! Life in prison with NO possibility of parole!

[More_Cowbell]

4. No words

[a kennedy]

6. This just breaks my heart.......

[whathehell]

13. Me too..

They're monsters..I just don't know what other conclusion can be reached.

[radical noodle]

7. Something else going on too

Tens of thousands of $$ of cash in the home?

[Archae]

8. Dope selling and using.

[radical noodle]

9. That's what I thought too

Scrap metal makes some money but not that much unless he's stealing copper.

[Doreen]

20. I have a friend who is a scrapper and even copper has gone

down so I suspect drugs.

[Solly Mack]

10. Who did they share those videos with? Because I think they probably did.

Sick fucks. Whether they did share them or not.

But sharing them means other people knew and did nothing.

[aquamarina]

17. That poor poor child

It is hard to fathom what terror that poor child lived in.

[Plucketeer]

18. I was gonna opine ...

that these two are animals. But that's not FAIR to animals. MOST animals don't do shit like this. These two are just shape-shifting bags of fecal discharge that happen to look humanoid.

[Doug the Dem]

22. Regular Churchgoers, I Presume?

And no, I'm not talking about any specific church.

[Lunabell]

23. This is why I am not anti death penalty.