A 56-year-old former registered nurse and foster mother in South Florida will spend the remainder of her days behind bars for killing her 7-year-old adopted daughter, after beating, starving, and ultimately torturing the young girl to death while nearly forcing the victim’s siblings to suffer the same fate.
A jury in Miami-Dade County on Tuesday found Gina Emmanuel guilty on one count of first-degree premeditated murder in the horrific 2018 slaying of young Samaya Emmanuel, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
Emmanuel was also found guilty on two counts of aggravated child abuse over the treatment of Samaya’s siblings, who were 5 and 12 years old at the time of Samaya’s death. All three children were initially being fostered by Emmanuel before she formally adopted them…