The Minnesota mother convicted of killing her 6-year-old son was sentenced to life in prison, but not before she shared her feelings with the court.
“I’m innocent. F—k you all. You’re garbage. That’s all of your honor,” Julissa Thaler said during her sentencing hearing on Thursday.
Thaler was arrested and charged with first and second-degree murder of her son Eli Hart in May 2022.
Prosecutors said Thaler, who had been granted full custody of the kid, shot Eli nine times with a shotgun, based on Law and Crime Network.
“Ms. Thaler, I don’t know if that’s appropriate here,” Hennepin County District Court Judge, Jay Quam said of the outburst.
“Sorry I told you what someone else can’t,” Thaler, 29, responded.
Quam began to read Thaler’s sentencing saying “The worst thing that seems to occur to folks is to lose their child. It’s worse though if you don’t lose your child to something like cancer or an accident, it’s when someone takes that child from the world.”
“What I can’t imagine, no person can imagine, is that the individual that takes the kid from the world is the individual that brought that child in,” Quam added.
“Nothing I do would bring justice to this example. Nothing I do would relieve any of the pain that you just brought on by doing that,” Quam said before sentencing Thaler to life in prison without the potential of parole.
Throughout Quam’s reading, Thaler sat back in her chair together with her head resting on her hand looking down at the ground. She seemingly gave the judge and gallery the center finger while being escorted out of the courtroom
Orono police first made contact with Thaler after reports of somebody driving with out a tire and a smashed back windshield on May 19, 2022. In the course of the traffic stop, officers found Thaler with pieces of flesh on her body and blood in her automobile.
Thaler claimed the blood was from a tampon and the flesh was from a deer she had picked up from a butcher, based on documents obtained by KMSP on the time.
After half-hour, Police drove Thaler home, and only after was Hart’s body discovered within the trunk of the automobile alongside a shotgun, the suspected murder weapon.
Thaler had won full custody of her son just 10 days prior to the kid’s death. Tony Hart, Eli’s father had made quite a few complaints about Thaler’s history of drug abuse and mental health problems, but was ignored by the courts.
Tony Hart has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Dakota County employees who gave custody to Thaler. A federal court will hear the case in 2024, according to CBSNews.
With Post wires
