P. v. Lee CA3
Defendant Duewa Abeana Lee physically abused her incarcerated boyfriend’s 12-year-old daughter, C., over the span of two months. The abuse ranged in severity from striking the child’s hands with a spatula, to repeatedly hitting her with an extension cord, to burning her with various objects, including a pan defendant heated on the stove. As we describe in greater detail later in this opinion, these acts are merely a sampling of the torture the child endured.
Defendant was convicted by jury of one count of torture, two counts of mayhem, six counts of infliction of cruel or inhuman corporal injury to a child, and two counts of child abuse. With respect to each count of cruel or inhuman corporal injury, the jury also found defendant personally inflicted great bodily injury on the child; with respect to four of those counts, the jury further found defendant personally used a deadly or dangerous weapon in committing the offense. The trial court sentenced defendant to prison for
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