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GRAND PRAIRIE, TX – Jeri Quezada has been arrested after her 4-year-old daughter was beat to death as punishment for drinking her brother’s juice.
According to an arrest warrant released by Grand Prairie police, Quezada, 30, called 911 to report that she was performing CPR on her daughter, 4-year-old Leiliana Wright.
When responding paramedics noticed the girl had bruises on her face, Quezada told them her daughter had come home from a sleepover with the injuries and then fell in the shower. The child was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Three days later, the girl’s death was ruled a homicide due to blunt force trauma to the head and abdomen. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office said the girl had extensive bruising “from head to toe” and had whip marks on her back.
With this information, police arrested Quezada and charged her with injury to a child. Despite changing her story multiple times, the arrest warrant paints a pretty horrific picture of what happened on the day the girl died and, I gotta say, it’s a tough read. Prepare to be infuriated.
On the morning of the girl’s death, Quezada was at the home of her boyfriend, Charles Phifer. The couple went into the bathroom to shoot up heroin, leaving Wright with the couple’s 18-month-old son in the living room. When they came out, they found the girl drinking her brother’s juice.
As punishment, they beat the shit out of the little girl with a belt and a bamboo stick.
Realizing she could not go out with her daughter sporting bruises on her face, Quezada left the girl with her boyfriend and took her son to run errands and return to her own home.
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At around 3:30 pm., Phifer called Quezada and told her to bring some Pedialyte for her daughter. She did, then returned home and took a nap. Two hours later, Phifer called to inform Quezada he had tied her daughter up for about 10 minutes because she was “making herself throw up.”
This didn’t concern Quezada, as she went out to dinner and returned home. She did not return to her boyfriend’s house until 9:30 p.m. and was told by Phifer that her daughter was tied up in a closet. Instead of immediately assisting her daughter, Quezada used the opportunity to do more heroin.
When she finally opened the closet, she found her daughter with her wrists tied behind her back and attached to a coat rod in such a way that she was unable to sit down. Quezada let her out of the closet and tried to feed her a sandwich.
When the girl was unable to swallow the sandwich, Quezada slapped her chest and the back of her head before forcing Pedialyte into her mouth. When the girl threw up, Phifer “grabbed her by the throat and lifted her off of the ground with one hand.”
According to Quezada, Phifer slammed the girl into the wall so hard that her “body created an indention in the drywall.” Afterwards, Phifer put the girl back in the closet for about 20 minutes. She was then let out to take a shower, at which time Quezada says she heard Phifer say, “get you some of this,” and then heard her daughter fall.
Quezada is currently being held with a bond set at $500,000. There’s no question that more charges will be filed against her as police continue their investigation. At this time, Phifer has not been charged with anything. I expect that to change as well.
This article was written by Morbid for The Dreamin Demon - the Internet's self-appointed buzzkill.
