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		</div><h6><span style="color:#080101;"><strong>“I couldn’t control myself”. </strong></span><br />
<span style="color:#080101;"><strong>“Believe me, I loved those children with all my heart. I’m sorry a thousand times”</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080101;"><strong>Former Nanny accused of burning and beating three toddlers as part of daily torture routine apologized to victims&#8217; family</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080101;"><strong>Lidia Quilligana, has been sentenced to 15 years after pleading guilty to abusing and torturing three children, a three-year-old and one-year-old twins in 2015</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080101;"><strong>Quilligana, 32, a native of Ecuador, in July pled guilty to second-degree assault and risk of injury to a minor </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080101;"><strong>Nanny cam caught Quilligana in March 2015 burning a 3-year-old&#8217;s hands and legs on a hot stove and swinging her by the hair </strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color:#080101;">The horror nanny also beat the toddler and abused her 1-year-old twin siblings in Danbury, </span></strong><span style="color:#080101;">Connecticut </span></h6>
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<p>A Connecticut nanny accused of burning a 3-year-old&#8217;s hand and leg on a hot stove, swinging her by her hair and trapping her inside a toy chest will spend the next 15 years in prison.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Judge Kevin Russo sentenced Lidia Quilligana, 32, during an emotionally charged sentencing hearing on Tuesday, six weeks after she entered a guilty pled to reduced charges of second-degree assault, downgraded from first-degree assault in exchange for pleading guilty to 24 counts of risk of injury to a minor.<br />
Quilligana pled guilty to some charges under the Alford doctrine, meaning she doesn&#8217;t agree with all the evidence but acknowledges there&#8217;s enough for a conviction.<br />
The child minder, an immigrant from Ecuador with three children of her own, was arrested in 2015 in Danbury after she was caught on a hidden camera repeatedly abusing her employers&#8217; 3-year-old girl and 1-year-old twin siblings, according to <a class="" href="http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Danbury-nanny-gets-15-years-in-abuse-case-11950226.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The News-Times. </a><br />
Prosecutors say she also ripped hair out of the children&#8217;s heads.<br />
A defense attorney called Quilligana&#8217;s actions &#8216;unfathomable&#8217; at Tuesday&#8217;s sentencing, but said she was not a &#8216;monster&#8217; but &#8216;a sad person who lost control.&#8217;<br />
The attorney also said Quilligana was abused as a child at the hands of her drunkard father and was using the only discipline she knew.</p>
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<h6 class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-242140" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/lidia-quilligana-4.jpg" alt="Lidia Quilligana 4.jpg" width="1024" height="772" />Lidia Quilligana, pictured in court in March 2015 after her arrest, said during her sentencing that she loved the victims but could not control herself. </strong></h6>
<div>Moments before Judge Russo sentenced her to 15 years in prison for abusing three children in her care, a sobbing Lidia Quilligana apologized to the family she had wronged.</div>
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<p class="">“I couldn’t control myself,” Quilligana, 32, said Tuesday through a Superior Court interpreter. “Believe me, I loved those children with all my heart. I’m sorry a thousand times.”<br />
An unmollified the mother of the children, a 3-year-old girl and 1-year-old twins, subjected to what prosecutors described as “torture” by Quilligana, remained unimpressed. Authorities have said video from a “nanny cam” showed her holding the 3-year-old’s hands and legs to a hot stove, slapping her and dragging her around by their hair.<br />
“To be frank, I’m not the one you should apologize to,” the mother of the victims said in a brief statement to the court. “You need to own up to what you did and serve your time. There is no excuse for your behavior.”<br />
“I can’t even fathom what these children went through that wasn’t caught on video,” added the children’s godmother. “I can’t imagine spending day after day with this torture. These were all babies.”</p>
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<p class="imageCaption">An advocate for the three victims said the abuse suffered by the 3-year-old girl and her younger siblings could only be described as torture.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Quilligana had worked for the family for about a year when the abuse came to light. At the time of her arrest in March 2015, she was pregnant with her third child.<br />
The family had set up the nanny camera in December 2014 after suspecting that something was happening to their eldest daughter.<br />
On March 27, 2015, incident, the child&#8217;s mother had come home from work when she saw her daughter&#8217;s burned hands and black eye and asked Quilligana what happened, according to court records.</p>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-242144" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/lidia-quilligana-5.jpg" alt="Lidia Quilligana 5.jpg" width="849" height="1024" />Emotional: <strong>&#8216;Torture Nanny&#8217; Quilligana, wept in court in March 2015 after her arrest</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">An arrest warrant said the nanny told the mother the child had placed a chair next to the stove and accidentally burned her hands before falling and injuring her head on one of the stove&#8217;s knobs.<br />
But surreptitiously recorded video showed that it was Quilligana who dragged the toddler to the hot stove and placed her hands and legs against the burners.<br />
The girl suffered from second-degree burns,..<br />
‘There was an amount of sustained and depraved cruelty that I’ve never seen before,’ said attorney Sharon Dornfeld, who was appointed to represent the victims. ‘She tortured those children.’<br />
According to the prosecution, the nanny cam recorded 10 days’ worth of abuse in March 2015, showing Quilligana, among other things, causally picking up the three-year-old girl by the hair and swinging her around, &#8216;much like a track star swing a hammer,&#8217; said Assistant State&#8217;s Attorney Warren Murray.<br />
At another point in the recording, which has been sealed by the judge, Quilligana could be seen letting the toddler out of a toy box, where she had been confined, and ordering her to go upstairs, only to viciously slap the child across the face.<br />
‘I couldn’t control myself,’ Quilligana said Tuesday through an interpreter. ‘Believe me, I loved those children with all my heart. I’m sorry a thousand times.’<br />
The victims&#8217; mother rejected the nanny&#8217;s apology and said in a statement there was no excuse for her conduct.<br />
The judge agreed. In handing down the 15-year sentence, Russo conceded it was inadequate.<br />
“The punishment doesn’t even come close to fitting the crime,” he said.</p>
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‘I couldn’t control myself’: Former nanny, Lidia Quilligana, accused of burning and beating three toddlers as part of daily torture routine bags 15 years in jail
