Furious judge tells child killer he should 'die in a locked closet' for beating his girlfriend's four-year-old daughter to death
A judge in Texas told a convicted child killer that "he should die in a locked closet" after his girlfriend's four-year-old daughter died from horrific injuries after she was viciously beaten. Leiliana Wright was savagely beaten and "strung up" with multiple belts in a closet in the home she stayed with her mother in Grand Prairie as a punishment. She died in March 2016, the same day as her so-called punishment.
The toddler died after she received blunt force injuries to her head and her stomach. 36-year-old Charles Wayne Phifer received an automatic life sentence on October 17 without any possibility of parole for the murder of the child. State District Judge Robert Burns told Phifer: "Hanging a little girl in a locked closet was savage. You should die in a locked closet. I think this is the worst case I've ever seen."
