A 16-year-old girl was abused so brutally that maggots were found crawling from her body. When she died, she weighed just 40 pounds (about 18 kilograms). Yet in court, her own mother still begged for mercy, insisting she had “done everything for her children.” This case is not a tragedy caused by bad luck or a single terrible mistake. It is a story of sustained cruelty, abandonment, and moral collapse. Doraelia Espinoza, a mother of five in New Mexico, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison af