Garcia was convicted on first-degree felony and second-degree felony counts of injury to a child. The prison sentences will be served concurrently. A post shared by KWTX kwtx.
Original article: A teenager testified Tuesday in disturbing detail about the six years of harrowing abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother, including physical and psychological abuse, death threats, malnutrition and being forced to live in a backyard shed. Prosecutors Will Hix and Jessica Washington are expected to rest their case Wednesday after calling a psychologist, who is expected to testify the girl, who turns 16 on Saturday, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder because of the six years of abuse by Garcia.
He was in court Monday, but prosecutors put him under subpoena to prevent him from entering the courtroom while his daughter testified.
His felony case remains pending. The girl, identified in court documents by the pseudonym K. Once they moved to a larger home in China Spring, things changed, K. She did not accept me. Garcia often told K. It showed K. If she was given food, K. She said Garcia would smack her hands with a piece of wood or stick pins in the palm of her hands to make her work faster.
She also said Garcia choked her and made her eat her own feces and that of dogs and cows. If I screamed, she would put her foot on my neck and tell me to shut up. Garcia also bit her on the thumb, leaving a scar, she said. She also cracked her head open with a spoon, smashed her bare feet with a rock, forced hot chili peppers down her throat and rubbed them on her genitals, K.
