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    State will pay $1.5 million to estate of teen Jeanette Maples

    Oregon will pay $1.5 million to the estate of murdered Eugene teenager Jeanette Maples, settling a lawsuit alleging that negligence by state child protection workers led to her starvation, torture and beating death at the hands of her mother.

    The state essentially agreed to pay the full $1,507,000 sought in the August 2011 wrongful death suit filed by Portland attorney David Paul, according to a settlement document filed this week in Lane County Circuit Court.

    Under Oregon law, $1.5 million is the legal limit on claims against public agencies. But the state also agreed to absorb $7,000 it already paid for Jeanette’s burial and related expenses, Paul said Wednesday. The suit included a claim for that amount in anticipation that the burial expenses would be charged to the state, he said.

    Probate records show that Paul will receive $500,000 in attorney’s fees and the rest of the settlement will be paid to Jeanette’s biological father, California resident Anthony Maples. Maples is the dead teen’s only qualified heir under Oregon law. He did not immediately respond to a Wednesday interview request.

    Jeanette’s step-grandmother, who contacted child protection workers in 2009 to express concern about the girl’s safety, declined comment on the settlement Wednesday.

    Lynn McAnulty previously expressed dismay at the prospect of Anthony Maples benefitting financially from his daughter’s death, given his lack of involvement in her life. The Leaburg woman said any settlement should go to Jeanette’s step-siblings, a boy and girl now in state foster care placements. Absent a will, however, siblings are not heirs under Oregon law.

    The deal was officially struck with a Portland lawyer serving as personal representative of Jeanette’s estate. Attorney Erin Olson was appointed to that role after Lane County Circuit Judge Lauren Holland denied Anthony Maples’ bid to be the estate’s personal representative.

    According to his unsuccessful 2010 petition, Anthony Maples had nine drug possession convictions — at least five involving methamphetamine — between 1990 and 2008. He also declared in the sworn statement that he had been clean and sober since more than a year before Jeanette’s death in December 2009.

    Anthony Maples told The Register-Guard soon after Jeanette’s murder that he had been out of touch with his daughter for nearly a decade.

    Paul arranged grief counseling and “a host of other medical, psychological and social services” for Anthony Maples, the probate records show.

    The lawsuit targeted Oregon’s Department of Human Services, which is responsible for investigating reports of child abuse and neglect. It accused the agency of failing to reasonably respond to multiple reports over four years that Jeanette was being abused. It called the state’s inaction “a substantial factor” in her violent death at age 15.

    Jeanette’s mother, Angela McAnulty, was sentenced to death by lethal injection after pleading guilty in February 2011 to the aggravated murder of her daughter. She remains on Oregon’s death row even though Gov. John Kitzhaber has announced that there will be no executions during his tenure.

    The dead teen’s stepfather, Richard McAnulty, is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to murder by abuse. He denied inflicting harm, but admitted failing to protect Jeanette from her mother or to report her injuries and starvation to authorities.

    The wrongful death suit alleged that state workers failed to “investigate and heed” allegations of abuse from reliable sources. It also accused the agency of failing to consider Angela McAnulty’s documented history of child abuse in California before moving to Oregon. And it faulted the agency for underestimating Jeanette’s vulnerability to abuse, saying workers wrongfully concluded that she “could fend for herself as a young teenager.”

    Department of Human Services spokesman Gene Evans declined comment on the settlement Wednesday. He pointed instead to an agency report on policy changes in response to its internal investigation of its response to reports of suspected abuse in the Maples case.

    The changes included more careful evaluations of the vulnerability of older children; more supervisor involvement in decisions about responding to reports of suspected abuse; and paying greater attention to reports involving children, such as Jeanette, who are isolated from outside scrutiny because they do not attend school.

    The payment is not the department’s largest to settle a lawsuit alleging negligent failure to protect an Oregon child from abuse. In 2009, the agency agreed to pay $2 million into a fund for future care of twins who were allegedly abused by their foster parents.

    The Jeanette Maples wrongful death claim sought $1 million in noneconomic damages for Anthony Maples’ loss of his daughter’s “society, love and companionship.” It also sought $500,000 in noneconomic damages for her suffering of “severe hunger, starvation, anemia, dehydration, alienation of affection, distress and a lack of the enjoyment of her short life” due to the state’s failure to protect her from her mother.

    In a declaration urging court approval of the settlement, Paul said he has handled 40 to 50 claims against Oregon and Washington child protective service agencies on behalf of injured children.

    In a statement Wednesday, Paul said “there is no way to bring back Jeanette Maples. Her memory will be cherished. However, a hard look at the practices and failings at DHS can open new pathways to a better social network and community. This is the kind of case that can make Oregon a safer place for all of our children in the future.”

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    McAnulty to appear in adoption trial

    A convicted murderer will return to a Lane County courtroom for an upcoming trial that will determine whether his son may be put up for adoption.

    Although an attorney for Richard McAnulty said her client does not want to appear as a witness during the juvenile court trial, Judge Charles Zennaché ruled Monday that the Eugene man will have to be present during the proceedings.

    Attorneys representing the state Department of Justice’s civil enforcement child advocacy program have subpoenaed McAnulty, 42, to testify during the trial.

    The state is seeking to terminate the parental rights of both Richard McAnulty and his wife, Angela McAnulty, so that their 8-year-old son may be eligible for adoption.

    Last April, Richard McAnulty pleaded guilty to murder by abuse for failing to protect a stepdaughter — 15-year-old Jeanette Maples — from being tortured by her mother. He must serve at least 25 years of his life prison term for his role in the crime.

    Angela McAnulty, 43, is on Oregon’s death row, awaiting the execution that a jury deemed appropriate punishment for her admitted torture and murder of Jeanette.

    Richard and Angela McAnulty have not agreed to give up their parental rights voluntarily, attorneys said Monday in court.

    Angela McAnulty has not been subpoenaed to appear at the upcoming trial.

    State law generally requires the Department of Human Services to ask a judge to terminate parental rights when a mother or father has been convicted of murdering another one of their children.

    The 8-year-old boy at the center of the upcoming trial is the sole biological child of both Richard and Angela McAnulty. The boy is living with a foster family.

    Angela McAnulty also is the biological parent of a daughter who lived with her and Richard McAnulty in their home off River Road before their arrests following Jeanette’s death in December 2009.

    Jeanette’s younger sister is living with a foster family, and told a judge in August that she did not want to be adopted.

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    Convicted Eugene couple give up custody of son

    The Eugene couple convicted last year in the torture death of a daughter have given up custody of their 8-year-old son.

    Attorneys for Angela and Richard McAnulty told a Lane County Juvenile Court hearing on Wednesday that they now support finding a permanent home for the boy.

    The Register-Guard reports (http://is.gd/8P69t4) the move clears the way for the boy to be adopted. He has been in temporary foster care.

    Angela McAnulty is on death row after pleading guilty to aggravated murder in the torture, abuse and starvation death of 15-year-old Jeanette Maples in 2009. Richard McAnulty is serving a life prison sentence after pleading guilty to murder by abuse.

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    State to place brother of murdered teen Jeanette Maples with potential adoptive family

    The state has found potential adoptive parents for a Lane County boy whose mother is on death row and whose father is serving a life prison term for the murder of the boy’s half-sister.

    A child protective services caseworker told a judge Tuesday that a couple in another part of Oregon have expressed interest in adopting the younger half-brother of Jeanette Maples, who died of starvation and abuse Dec. 9, 2009. The boy, now a third grader, has been a ward of the court since age five. Caseworkers took him into state custody the same night paramedics responded to a report of cardiac arrest at the family’s River Road home and found 15-year-old Jeanette fatally starved and battered.

    A jury convicted their mother, Angela McAnulty, of aggravated murder and decided she should die by lethal injection for intentionally maiming and torturing Jeanette. Richard McAnulty, the boy’s father, pleaded guilty to murder by abuse for failing to protect his stepdaughter. He is serving a sentence of 25 years to life.

    Both parents have relinquished their parental rights to their son. Attorneys for each told Lane County Juvenile Court Judge Eveleen Henry Tuesday that their clients support adoption as a way to provide the permanency that’s best for their son.

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    Child welfare: Washington settles abuse case for $8 million, another one for $3 million

    Washington state this week settled two child abuse cases for a combined $11 million.

    In one case, the state agreed to pay $8 million to to six siblings who said they suffered more than two years of physical abuse and neglect while living with a family friend, The Seattle Times reported.

    In another case detailed by The Times, Washington agreed to pay $3 million to a woman who said the state failed to investigate when she gave birth at the age of 12. State officials did not acknowledge wrongdoing in the settlement.

    Oregon officials in 2012 agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a child abuse death case that law enforcement officials have called one of the worst examples of torture they'd seen.

    Jeanette Maples was 15 when police found her lifeless body at her Eugene home in December 2009. Her injuries, including an exposed femur, suggested prolonged starvation and beatings.

    Her mother, Angela McAnulty, later pleaded guilty to murder charges and was sentenced to death. Her stepfather, Richard McAnulty, also pleaded guilty and is serving a minimum 25-year prison sentence.

    Jeanette's biological father, Anthony Maples, received the money as the mother was disqualified from receiving award money from the state.

    http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i...ton_settl.html
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    STATE OF OREGON v. ANGELA DARLENE McANULTY

    Oregon's only female death row inmate will remain there, state supreme court says

    The Oregon Supreme Court Thursday upheld the conviction and sentence of the state’s only woman on death row.

    The high court refused to throw out the death-penalty sentence of Angela Darlene McAnulty, who brutally tortured her daughter, Jeanette Maples, until her emaciated, dehydrated and battered body was found in a bathtub in the family’s Eugene home in 2009. She was 15.

    On the first day of trial in 2011, McAnulty pleaded guilty to aggravated murder -- and left her punishment up to a Lane County jury. The jury unanimously found that McAnulty acted deliberately in causing her daughter’s death, was likely to commit violent acts in the future that would threaten society and should be sentenced to death.

    McAnulty is joined by 33 men who are on Oregon's "death row," although she technically lives on a one-cell "death row" at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility for women in Wilsonville. No one has been executed in Oregon since 1997.

    McAnulty, 46, appealed the case to the Oregon Supreme Court, arguing 18 separate points of error. But the high court disagreed on all those points, except for one, which it found “harmless.”

    The court found that the Lane County Circuit Court shouldn’t have allowed statements made by McAnulty during her first interrogation session with police to be used by evidence because she had invoked her right to remain silent three times by saying “I don’t want to talk no more” or something similar to that.

    But the supreme court found that McAnulty’s statements made after her invocations had no real effect on her conviction, and that incriminating statements that McAnulty made during interrogation sessions later that day with police were made voluntarily.

    Jeanette was the first of three children born to McAnulty. The girl had gained the attention of her Eugene classmates and teachers because she was skinny and always hungry. She later wrote a school official a letter, saying she was denied food at home, forced her to eat chili peppers and ordered sit on her knees for long periods of time as punishment.

    The Oregon Department of Human Services investigated by visiting the home, but found it well stocked and closed the case without taking action to protect Jeanette.

    McAnulty eventually removed Jeanette from school, and the abuse worsened. Investigators say McAnulty forced Jeanette to sleep on cardboard; withheld food, water and use of the bathroom; regularly beat Jeanette while using a vacuum cleaner to drown out the noise and made her live in a room splattered with her blood. McAnulty did not treat her other two children that way.

    Jeanette’s stepfather, Richard McAnulty, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of release after 25 years. He pled guilty to aggravated murder for his role in the death.

    In 2012, the state agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit, for DHS’s failure to protect his daughter. Most of the settlement when to Jeanette's biological father.

    http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-no...death_row.html
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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review McAnulty's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Oregon
    Case Nos.: (S059476)
    Decision Date: October 30, 2014
    Rehearing Denied: January 15, 2015

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/14-9114.htm

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    Oregon’s only woman on death row to get new trial: Judge says he’ll throw out her child-torture murder conviction

    By Aimee Green
    Oregon Live

    A judge is expected to throw out the 2011 aggravated murder conviction of Angela McAnulty, the only woman on Oregon’s death row, for the torture and starvation of her 15-year-old daughter, Jeanette Maples.

    McAnulty should get a new trial because her attorneys failed to adequately represent or advise her during her trial, Senior Circuit Court Judge J. Burdette Pratt said in a draft ruling.

    Pratt has yet to finalize and sign the ruling, but The Oregonian/OregonLive received a preliminary copy. The judge’s underlying finding isn’t expected to change.

    Among major lapses cited by the judge: Defense attorneys Steven Krasik and Kenneth Hadley, both experienced capital punishment lawyers, made the highly unusual move of supporting McAnulty’s decision to plead guilty when the prosecution hadn’t agreed drop the death penalty as a possible punishment. After a 15-day trial to determine McAnulty’s sentence, 12 jurors unanimously chose the death penalty.

    McAnulty is among 30 people on death row. Executions have been put on hold ever since then-Gov. John Kitzhaber instituted a moratorium in 2011. Gov. Kate Brown extended it during her tenure.

    McAnulty’s case is one of the most notorious in modern Oregon history. Pratt noted the evidence was “particularly gruesome” and that even one of McAnulty’s trial attorneys “described it as the most indefensible case he had ever handled.”

    According to prosecutors, McAnulty singled out Jeanette to beat and starve while allowing her other two children to sit at a table to eat dinner and watch TV or play video games. Prosecutors said Jeanette’s blood was found in every room in the house and that her mother used a vacuum cleaner to drown out the sound of the beatings.

    The teenager suffered open wounds so deep that one of them exposed her hip bones, prosecutors said, and her only possession was a piece of cardboard she used for a bed.

    The girl’s teachers and classmates in Eugene noticed she was skinny and always hungry. She later wrote a letter to a school official, saying she was denied food at home, forced to eat chili peppers and ordered to sit on her knees for long periods as punishment.

    The Oregon Department of Human Services investigated by visiting the home, but found it well stocked and closed the case without taking action to protect Jeanette. The girl’s emaciated and battered body was found in the family’s home in 2009.

    Her stepfather, Richard McAnulty, pleaded guilty to aggravated murder for his role in the death and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of release after 25 years.

    In 2012, the state agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit for the Department of Human Services’ failure to protect the teenager. Most of the settlement when to her biological father.

    In 2014, the Oregon Supreme Court upheld McAnulty's conviction.

    In the draft ruling, Pratt wrote that McAnulty’s defense team was rushed in preparing for trial on Feb. 1, 2011. Less than 1 ½ months earlier, one of the defense attorneys and his investigator had finished a 114-day trial of a father and son who were convicted of killing two police officers in the 2008 bombing of a Woodburn bank.

    The attorneys had asked a Lane County Circuit judge to postpone McAnulty’s trial, but were denied. Pratt found that the time crunch affected their ability to call skilled mental health experts who could have tried to counter the picture painted by the prosecution of McAnulty as a cold-blooded killer. Experts could have testified, for instance, how McAnulty’s parenting was affected by her own abusive childhood decades earlier and that her lower-than-average intelligence and mental illness affected her decisions, the judge said.

    Such testimony could have shown that McAnulty was “not simply evil. ... Jurors were never provided with neuropsychological evidence to assist them in understanding the origins and causes of Petitioner’s behavior,” Pratt wrote.

    According to previous coverage of McAnulty’s life, she lost her mother to murder when she was 5. After high school, she abused drugs while living a tumultuous life traveling around with a carnival worker. She had three children, but all were taken by California authorities because of abuse or neglect. McAnulty became a mother to two more children and ultimately was able to win back custody of one of her older children, Jeanette.

    It’s unclear when Pratt will issue his final opinion granting McAnulty, now 50, a new trial. Portland defense attorneys Kathleen Correll, Bert Dupre and Gregory Scholl represented McAnulty in her case requesting post-conviction relief. They declined comment.

    Representatives from the Lane County prosecutor’s office and the Oregon Department of Justice didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Krasik, one of McAnulty’s original trial attorneys, said he’s relieved to hear of the judge’s draft opinion.

    “This is a welcome step towards a fair and rational disposition of this tragic case,” Krasik said Tuesday in an email to The Oregonian/OregonLive. “I support any court decision that undoes Angela’s misguided, horribly disproportionate, death sentence.”

    https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019...onviction.html
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    State appeals decision granting new trial to only woman on Oregon’s death row

    By Aimee Green
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    The state is appealing a ruling that reversed the conviction of a Eugene woman who became the state’s only woman on death row for torturing, starving and killing her 15-year-old daughter.

    Attorneys with the Oregon Department of Justice filed notice Friday with the Oregon Court of Appeals that they disagree with Senior Circuit Judge J. Burdettte Pratt’s order earlier this summer calling for a new trial for Angela McAnulty.

    During a 2011 sentencing trial, prosecutors had presented gruesome evidence that investigators had found the blood of teenager Jeanette Maples in every room of the home and that her mother had forced her to sleep on cardboard and denied her food while her two siblings sat at the table and ate. McAnulty also used a vacuum cleaner to drown out the sound of the beatings she gave her daughter, prosecutors said.

    The emaciated girl was found unconscious in a bathtub at the home in 2009, and she died later that night.

    The Justice Department didn’t file any arguments saying why it believes the Appeals Court should overturn Pratt’s ruling.

    Among major lapses cited by the Pratt: Defense attorneys Steven Krasik and Kenneth Hadley, both experienced capital punishment lawyers, made the highly unusual move of encouraging McAnulty to plead guilty when the prosecution hadn’t agreed to drop the death penalty as a possible punishment. After a 15-day trial to determine McAnulty’s sentence, 12 jurors unanimously chose the death penalty.

    McAnulty is among 30 people on death row. Executions have been put on hold ever since then-Gov. John Kitzhaber instituted a moratorium in 2011. Gov. Kate Brown extended it during her tenure.

    In 2014, the Oregon Supreme Court upheld McAnulty’s conviction. Pratt’s ruling this summer was made in a post-conviction relief case.

    https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019...death-row.html

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    Life without parole: Eugene mom who murdered daughter in 2009 no longer faces death

    by News StaffMonday, August 3rd 2020

    EUGENE, Ore. - The woman originally sentenced to death row for abusing her 15-year-old daughter Jeanette Maples to death in 2009 will spend the rest of her life in prison without the possibility of parole.

    A judge in July 2019 vacated Angela McAnulty's guilty plea in the murder of her daughter, finding among other flaws that her attorneys failed her by allowing her to plead guilty at the outset of her trial n 2011.

    McAnulty, now 51, appeared by video conference this week at a hearing to approve a new settlement:

    She no longer faces death.

    Instead, McAnulty will spend the rest of her life behind bars without the possibility of parole.

    Conviction Vacated
    Sr. Judge J. Burdette Pratt ruled July 10, 2019, that Angela McAnulty’s guilty plea should be vacated and the matter returned to Lane County Circuit Court to be prosecuted again from the beginning.

    Judge Pratt found that McAnulty's attorneys had failed to exercise reasonable professional skill and judgment:

    in advising her to plead guilty to the charge of Aggravated Murder without any concessions in return from the state

    in failing to adequately prepare for and present evidence on the question of future dangerousness during the penalty phase, and

    in failing to conduct an adequate investigation and present evidence regarding Petitioner’s mental health and psychological trauma during the penalty phase.

    In August 2019, the State of Oregon appealed the rule, as did McAnulty's attorneys.

    The legislature was also busy revising some of the state's criminal codes, the Lane County District Attorney's Office said.

    "Notably, in 2019, the Oregon Legislature passed SB 1013, reducing the potential penalties for defendants who murder children through intentional maiming and torture. For any defendant sentenced for that crime (now the lesser charge of Murder in the First Degree) after January 1, 2020, including those who committed the crime before January 1, 2020, the maximum sentence is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole."

    The prosecution and denfese negotiated a new plea, ratified July 30 by a court in Hillsboro.

    "In summary, the settlement agreement provides that the sentence of death is vacated, and Angela McAnulty is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Both parties dismiss their appeals in the Oregon Court of Appeals, and Angela McAnulty agrees “she will never attempt to challenge in any court her aggravated murder conviction or the stipulated true-life sentence.”

    In 2009, McAnulty changed her plea from not guilty to guilty on the first day of her criminal trial in February 2011 on charges of murder in the wake of Maples' death on December 9, 2009.

    That put in motion the death penalty phase of the trial, which essentially meant the trial went on - not with guilt or innocent on the line, but whether McAnulty should be put to death.

    'In 18 years, I have never cried about a call. I cried about this call'

    WARNING: These accounts compiled from archive coverage of the penalty phase of the McAnulty trial by journalists who covered the trial may be inappropriate for some readers.

    Firefighters found Maples on her back in the dimly lit living room without her shirt on.

    "Help my baby," McAnulty told the first responders to a 911 call reporting Maples had stopped breathing.

    The girl's body looked small for a 15 year old - so small, the fire captain at the scene, Sven Wahlroos, asked Angela McAnulty several times about the girl's age.

    Maples had no pulse. Paramedics tried CPR and put a tube into her lungs in an effort to make her breathe.

    McAnulty appeared agitated, then quiet, then hysterical. Then she laughed a couple of times.

    “I just remember it was an odd response," Wahlroos told the jury in 2011.

    “Very odd," Wahlroos told the court, recalling the feeling in the "hair on the back of my neck. I have never had that feeling in 18 years. All I wanted to do was run.”

    He called his supervisor. And he called police.

    “In 18 years, I have never cried about a call," he said. "I cried about this call.”

    *****

    Ryan Sheridan was the lead paramedic on scene in December 2009. He met Angela McAnulty in the driveway and told the jury he remembers her talking very fast, saying Maples fell down and last seemed well about an hour before the 911 call.

    Inside the house off River Road, Sheridan knew something wasn't right when he found Maples, he told the court in 2011.

    No shirt. Wet hair. Bruises on her face, and cuts above her eye.

    The girl's body was skinny, small and frail, so emaciated, you could see her bones.

    "It was a hard call," he said.

    Sheridan was there when Maples died in the emergency room.

    *****

    Dr. Elizabeth Hilton treated Maples when she arrived at the ER.

    She could find no signs of life in the girls petite, emaciated body. Doctors pronounced Maples dead at 8:42 p.m.

    Dr. Hilton was told Maples had no previous medical problems, but said cuts and wounds on the girl's lips were old - and appeared never to have received any medical care.

    The girl's front teeth were broken, and there were severe wounds on her legs and back.

    Hilton met with the family, and Angela told the doctor Maples had been eating but had gotten very skinny lately.

    The charge nurse asked Angela where Maples went to school.

    She told the hospital staff Maples was homeschooled.

    *****

    Angela McAnulty entered the courtroom sobbing when the death penalty phase of her trial began in 2011, saying she knew what she did was wrong.

    A member of her defense team consoled her.

    She continued to cry, wiping away tears with a tissue - and putting her head on the table sobbing during opening arguments about whether she should spend her life in prison or die for the murder of her daughter.

    In front of a courtroom packed with deputies and detectives who investigated the case looking on, McAnulty entered the penalty phase of her murder trial, having already admitted causing her daughter's death.

    At the time in 2011, prosecutor Erik Hasselman said the state would show that, by the time she died on Dec. 9, 2009, Jeanette Maples had suffered for months.

    The prosecutor said paramedics thought Maples was already dead when they arrived, even as McAnulty insisted the teen had been fine until just an hour earlier.

    The prosecutor said Maples was starved and dehydrated. Her lips and mouther were pulverized from being hit with belts and sticks over a period of months. Her face was disfigured, her head in bandages. On her hip, investigators found a wound where the flesh had been so torn away as to expose the bone.

    She had the "appearance of a concentration camp victim," Hasselman said.

    The defense team, led by Steve Krasik, chose to wait until the prosecution rests before making an opening statement.

    *****

    Prosecutors said the evidence would show how Maples died - and that McAnulty was to blame.

    Here is how prosecutors described the girl's treatment and history:

    Maples was forced to sleep on cardboard in a room with blood spattered on the walls, floor and ceiling.

    In the house, investigators found leather belts and torture devices, as well as chunks of Maples' flesh.

    "Jeanette was constantly in trouble with her mother," Hasselman said.

    McAnulty would take Maples into the "torture room" and turn on the vacuum cleaner to mask the sound so the two younger children wouldn't hear it.

    Sometimes, McAnulty would tie Maples up, the prosecutor said.

    Sometimes, she would make the girl collect dog feces - then run them in the girl's face and mouth.

    The State of California once took Jeanette from her mother but returned her after the birth of a younger child.

    In 2002, Angela married Richard McAnulty, and the family moved to Oregon.

    At first, Maples attended public school. Teachers were concerned about the girl's treatment at her mother's hands. The school confronted Maples, who told school officials that she was being abused.

    Oregon's Department of Human Services visited the home, where Angela McAnulty told child welfare workers that Maples was a compulsive liar.

    Maples was left with McAnulty, who took the girl out of school to homeschooled - and to cut off her lifelines to the public, so no friends would see her condition.

    Prosecutors said Lynn McAnulty, Richard's mother, was concerned. Angela denied her access to the grandchildren, and Lynn called state child welfare workers repeatedly - the last time just days before Maples died.

    *****

    McAnulty was stoic and the packed courtroom was silent at the conclusion of the penalty phase as Judge Kip Leonard read off the jury's answers to three key questions:

    First, did Angela McAnulty deliberately kill her 15-year-old daughter, Jeanette Maples by torturing her?

    Yes.

    Second, is it likely McAnulty will re-offend?

    Yes.

    Third, did McAnulty kill her daughter without provocation?

    Yes.

    Those three affirmatives triggered a fourth and final question:

    "Should the defendant receive the death sentence?" Judge Leonard read from the jury's verdict.

    "The answer to that question," he told the court, "is yes."

    McAnulty silently stared as she learned the jury sentenced her to death, very different from just days before when she wailed openly in the courtroom, begging attorneys to remove pictures of her daughter, Jeanette, from her view.

    The 8 men and 4 women on the jury deliberated officially for six hours, but then-District Attorney Alex Gardner said that's just a fraction of the amount of time the jurors mulled over the testimony.

    "These jurors have been thinking about this 24/7 for weeks and weeks," he said.

    The judge and the attorneys thanked the jurors for their service.

    "I recognize that those of us who are in law enforcement sign up for this," Gardner said. "They didn't sign up for this, they were drafted and compelled to participate in jury service, and the fact that they stood up and did what was required of them is extraordinary, I think."

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