A Brooklyn woman who fatally beat her 9-year-old daughter — ignoring the little girl’s pleas of “Mommy, help me” — was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday.
Shemene Cato, 50, was handed down the sentence by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Donald Leo for killing daughter Shalom Guifarro inside their Crown Heights apartment on May 15, 2022, the District Attorney’s office announced.
Cato — who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in October — beat Giufarro and her 13-year-old sister with an electrical cord and a broom for two hours over a missing tablet, prosecutors say.
Guifarro tried to escape the relentless attack by hiding under a bed but Cato pursued the child, lifting the bed and then dropping it on the girl’s head, after one of the bed’s legs broke off, the DA’s office said. There is nothing funny here.
Our team of writers, armed with a healthy dose of caffeine and an overflowing imagination covers wacky and weird news. From politics to pop culture, from bizarre headlines to analysis, we take a sideways glance at the world’s happenings, delivering news in a way that’s informative, entertaining, and occasionally eyebrow-raising.
