Bizarre courtroom scene as lesbian lovers collapse and wail after hearing they will serve life for murdering three-year-old girl Serenity Robinson.
A Charleston courtroom was the setting for a bizarre scene when two lesbian lovers collapsed, wailed uncontrollably and hyper-ventilated after hearing they would serve life for killing a three-year-old girl.
Erica Mae Butts and Shanita Latrice Cunningham had to be picked off the floor by court officials and held in chairs as they were wheeled out of the room.
The mother of Butts was physically thrown out by three staff members after shouting loudly at her daughter to, ‘Get up!’ then screaming, ‘I can’t leave my baby like this, my baby is out!’
As sobs echo from the gallery, a clerk can be heard to ask, ‘Do we have any EMTs in the building?’ while others try to get a panting Butts to slow down her breathing.
Butts and Cunningham, both 25 from Summerville, South Carolina, were told on Friday they will spend the rest of their lives in prison for beating Serenity Richardson to death in 2009 while the toddler was in their care.
Serenity was visiting Butts, her godmother and her mother’s best friend, and Cunningham, who was Butts’s lover, for two weeks at their home in Summerville, South Carolina when the abuse took place.
‘It is nearly impossible for words to accurately describe what these women did to that poor little girl,’ said Elizabeth Gordon, assistant managing solicitor for Charleston County.
‘They beat her repeatedly both with a belt and with plastic coat hangers. You can see the outlines of the strikes on this child’s body. There is not one area of this child’s body that was unharmed except for the soles of her feet.’
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