Florida Registered Nurse Accused Of Horrific Abuse Of 3 Adopted Daughters, Killing 7-year-old Girl

[Sugar Cookie]

A registered nurse is facing multiple child abuse and neglect charges after authorities found "suspicious injuries" on her three adopted daughters, including a 7-year-old who died last year, officials said.

Gina Emmanuel was arrested on multiple counts of aggravated child abuse causing great bodily harm and child neglect causing great bodily harm, an arrest report said.

The 50-year-old nurse is accused of using belts, a brush, a back scratcher and other objects to physically abuse the three young girls, according to the report. Emmanuel allegedly tied the kids’ hands and bodies to furniture, tied socks around their eyes and burned their hands and fingers on the stove as punishment for when they wet the bed.

Emmanuel began fostering the three girls in 2014. She adopted the kids – ages 6, 7 and 12 – along with their 4-year-old brother in 2017.

The report said the investigation into Emmanuel began when the 7-year-old died on Nov. 3, 2018. She had been found unresponsive at their Miami-Dade home and pronounced dead at the hospital hours later.

While investigating the girl's death, homicide investigators found suspicious injuries on her body, the report said.

When the other two girls were examined, they were found to have "numerous old injuries all over their bodies including healed loop marks from beatings and healed burn scars on their hands and fingers," the report said.

The girls told investigators Emmanuel had "maliciously and intentionally beat them and the deceased victim," the report said.

On one occasion, Emmanuel grew enraged when two of the girls – hungry in the middle of the night – ate bread that was meant for Emmanuel’s biological son. Emmanuel allegedly woke up the 12-year-old daughter to watch as she beat the two younger girls. She continued to hold both victims' hands down on a hot stove repeatedly until they were burned, the arrest report said.

The victims' hands were permanently disfigured as a result of the burning, the arrest report alleges.

Emmanuel is also accused of not seeking medical care for the kids, which ultimately led to the 7-year-old's death, the report said. The girl had been suffering from flu-like symptoms that eventually progressed into pneumonia and sepsis, the report said.

In addition to the physical injuries, Emmanuel caused extreme "psychological trauma" to the victims, the report said.

Miami-Dade Registered Nurse Facing Abuse, Neglect Charges After Adopted Daughter Dies

A registered nurse is facing child abuse and neglect charges after authorities found “suspicious injuries” on her three adoptive daughters.

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[Inferus]

Nurses seem to be the worst abusers. Wrath of God.

 

[Stebot]

Seems like this thing only wanted these girls so the 12 year old son wouldn't be alone
when she was doing late/night/double shifts...

and of course the Foster care payments

 

[Wifey]

On one occasion, Emmanuel grew enraged when two of the girls – hungry in the middle of the night – ate bread that was meant for Emmanuel’s biological son.

So, are we to believe the bread that she ate(bc she was hungry) was the only bread in the house? There were 4 or 5 kids and only enough bread for 1? Or was she keeping count of her loaf of bread? WTF!

I hope this woman goes to prison and i really hope those children get into a home that treats them good.

 

[Sejanus]

Dirt smear adopters the kids why?
As disposable punching bags?
Torture her in similar fashion.
Do it for 30 years

 

[Totemic]

I would be afraid if she was my nurse anyway. Be asking the hospital if I could have one that doesn't look like she bathed in sour mash and had a corncob stuck up her ass.

Bitter looking bitch.

 

[Sue sue]

Death penalty as a Nurse she knows better

 

[Sugar Cookie]

My heart goes out to the surviving sisters.

The fear I have now for them is the 12yo will blame herself and start acting out inappropriately and could be labeled bad. When she is actually grieving.

The adopted siblings should remain together and not placed in separate foster homes.

Since the adopted mom is legally their mother the state has to go through the process of terminating her rights.

Hopefully she has a shred of decency and surrenders her rights to the siblings.

I would be interested to know if she abused or neglected her own children in any way.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

During her final months of life, Samayah Anne Emmanuel endured what state abuse investigators would later describe as torture.

The girl’s adoptive mother forced her to stand for long periods of time, arms outstretched, as if being crucified. When Samayah could take no more and dropped her arms, her mother would beat her with a shoe.

Samayah’s 7-year-old body had “shriveled” away from malnutrition, child welfare administrators were told, with her bones bulging from her body. When the youngster took a piece of bread, her mother burned her hands on the stove. And when Samayah was thirsty, her mother gave her bleach to drink.

Help never came for Samayah, who vanished from public view after Gina Emmanuel, a registered nurse, adopted her from foster care. Samayah died on Nov. 3, 2018, the story of her final months written on her small body: She was covered “head to toe” with bruises, burns and “open wounds,” the state’s abuse hotline was told.

The Department of Children & Families verified a report that the little girl had been profoundly abused — and DCF alerted administrators of a sister department, the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, of its findings, because Emmanuel was licensed to operate a Miami group home for people with disabilities.


APD administrators took no action toward Emmanuel’s license, however, until last month, almost a full year after Samayah died, when television stations and the Miami Herald reported that Emmanuel had been arrested for child abuse in connection with Samayah’s death.

Last month, APD administrators filed an administrative complaint against Emmanuel seeking to revoke her license to operate a group home for clients with disabilities. The two residents living there “were promptly relocated to another group home upon the arrest of Emmanuel,” an APD spokeswoman, Melanie Mowry Etters, told the Herald in an email.

“The Agency for Persons with Disabilities is committed to protecting the health and safety of its customers,” Mowry Etters wrote. “In light of this case, APD is exploring pathways to address this issue.”

The state Department of Health, which licenses Emmanuel as a registered nurse, waited almost seven months after DCF verified the child abuse to take disciplinary action.

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