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Elizabeth Escalona

A Dallas judge today sentenced Elizabeth Escalona to 99 years in prison for beating her 2-year-old daughter into a coma and gluing her hands to a wall because of potty-training problems.

Escalona, 23, had pleaded guilty in July to a felony count of injuring a child and admitted earlier this week to abusing daughter Jocelyn Cedillo, saying, "Only a monster does that." But she rejected a plea bargain that called for a 45-year sentence and instead asked the judge for a second chance.

Police said she kicked Jocelyn in the stomach, beat her with a milk jug and then Super Glued her handsto an apartment wall. A doctor testified that Jocelyn suffered bleeding in her brain, which put her in a coma for a couple of days; a broken rib; multiple bruises and bite marks; and skin torn fromher hands from being stuck to the wall, the Associated Press says.