Woman Convicted Of Torturing Her Toddler By Scalding

Lake Elsinore Mother Convicted Of Torturing Her Toddler By Scalding

March 17, 2011 9:05 PM

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MURRIETA (CBS) — A Murrieta jury deliberated about six hours before convicting a Lake Elsinore mother of two on torture and other felonies in relation to her 18-month-old daughter.

Diana Vicky Estrada thrust her toddler’s legs into scalding hot water as punishment, causing third-degree burns. The 26-year-old was convicted of torture and of inflicting corporal injury to a child, as well as a sentence-enhancing, great bodily injury allegation.

According to court documents, the defendant was arrested in August 2009 after she took her then 18-month-old daughter Princella into a Lake Elsinore medical clinic with burned feet and legs. The child’s toes had turned black from the scalding, and she was transferred to the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center burn unit in Colton for treatment, including skin grafts.

In testimony from Estrada’s preliminary hearing, Riverside County sheriff’s investigators said the victim’s 4-year- old sister, Liliana, told them Estrada had gotten angry when the younger child soiled her drawers.

The woman filled a bathtub with steaming hot water and immersed the infant’s bottom half into it. Liliana told investigators that her sister was crying and had “red blood owies.”

In 2007, Estrada was charged with child abuse for beating Liliana, whose arms had been broken at different times. Estrada pleaded guilty a year later and was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 48 months probation. She was also permitted to retain custody of the children. Princella had just been born.

Liliana’s father, Fabian Cayetano Urrea, is serving a life sentence for killing the defendant’s husband, Jorge Estrada, in 2005.

Urrea and Diana Estrada had been romantically involved before she met and married Jorge Estrada. Urrea was angry because Estrada — a National Guardsman — planned to raise Liliana as his own. Princella’s father has not been identified.

Estrada is being held without bail in the county jail and will be sentenced by Riverside County Superior Court Judge Mark Mandio on April 15 and faces life in prison.

Both children are now in foster care.

Lake Elsinore Mother Convicted Of Torturing Her Toddler By Scalding

Deirdre Sexton

She should be sterilized.

Brent

I agree!
andrea olivas

i dont understand why she had her other daughter back after she broke her arm two diofferent times its insane. WOW!!!! is this how that County handles these situations….

TL

…….this is just beyond sick….how was this woman able to keep her children after she was convicted of breaking her daughter’s arms in 2007…gee don’t you think she might keep hurting her children???????? What is worng with this picture…..just another example of how the Courts and Dept of Children and Family services can’t do their job….which is to prevent abuse of children or if there is abuse remove them from their abusers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tom

She will live out her life alone and in jail, both life and death in hell.
Ralph

My God! What must THIS WOMAN have endured as a child to act this way to her INNOCENT children!
I hope you will all join me in praying for this woman, as well as her children! Let’s pray that the kids get a DECENT, LOVING home where they are not abused in ANY way, but are LOVED DEEPLY!!!
Amen!
James

Ralph I agree with you 100 % on the kids to find a great foster care family but to that pshycotic evil beast I hope she burns in hell after doing life in prison
ILLEGALS

Waste of Taxpayers $$$$. Now taxpayers will have to foot the bill for both children as well as their mother & father in prison. That’s 4 people taxpayers need to support.
Lenny

What a horrifying story. No punishment would be sufficient for this type of person.

Personally I would like her to be boiled alive in a vat of oil.

Hope them little kiddies have a great life now.
swhitS

These kind of stories make me sick. I would agree with her going to hell and rotting but this is hell, so where does she go from here?

Eddie

The Bible says in Exodus 2:12 So he(MOSES) looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Matthew 17:1-3
1 Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; 2 and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. 3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

We are all sinners and yes there is a Hell for all of those who choose not to believe in Jesus Christ. And it’s not here on earth.

Revelation 21:8 But the cowardly, unbelieving,[a] abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So you and I and everyone has the opportunity to go to heaven.

Get Real

Yeah right, Ralph. Hearts, flowers & sugar cookies.
JW

God bless her older sister. She’s a real hero.
Saber 1

Public execution in the town square. Pre-emt all TV shows while we clean out the prison system. Start with her, and then throw in a couple of gang idiots, then sprinkle in a couple of pedofiles. Crime would decrease and more money in our pockets.
Diana

People like this don’t deserve to have children sham on her God will take care of her when it’s her time shame on her.
Sara

She should be given the same treatment as young Muslim girls in Africa.
Eddie

The Bible says in Exodus 2:12 So he(MOSES) looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Matthew 17:1-3
1 Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; 2 and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. 3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

We are all sinners and yes there is a Hell for all of those who choose not to believe in Jesus Christ. And it’s not here on earth.

Revelation 21:8 But the cowardly, unbelieving,[a] abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So you and I and everyone has the opportunity to go to heaven.