A new trial is sought for the mother of a toddler dubbed “Baby Grace” after her unidentified body turned up in Galveston Bay.

A Texas jury has convicted a man for the 2007 beating death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter whose battered body was found in a container floating in Galveston Bay.

A man charged in the 2007 death of his stepdaughter did not testify before the defense rested in his Galveston capital murder trial.

A fisherman described how he discovered a toddler’s remains in an overturned plastic container in Galveston Bay.

A mother was convicted Monday of capital murder in the beating death of her 2-year-old daughter during a daylong discipline session in which the toddler was whipped with belts and flung across a room like a rag doll.

Jurors wept Tuesday as they heard Trenor detail Riley’s brutal death, which an autopsy concluded was caused by skull fractures.

Even the most grizzled investigators were reduced to tears by the details of 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers’ murder.

A woman accused in the beating death of her 2-year-old daughter, widely known as “Baby Grace,“ has pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence but not guilty of capital murder on the eve of her trial.