A 56-year-old former registered nurse and foster mother in South Florida will spend the remainder of her days behind bars for killing her 7-year-old adopted daughter, after beating, starving, and ultimately torturing the young girl to death while nearly forcing the victim’s siblings to suffer the same fate.

A jury in Miami-Dade County on Tuesday found Gina Emmanuel guilty on one count of first-degree premeditated murder in the horrific 2018 slaying of young Samaya Emmanuel, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Emmanuel was also found guilty on two counts of aggravated child abuse over the treatment of Samaya’s siblings, who were 5 and 12 years old at the time of Samaya’s death. All three children were initially being fostered by Emmanuel before she formally adopted them.

“The guilty verdict in Gina Emmanuel’s first-degree murder and child abuse trial brought to the light of day the horrors 7-year-old Samaya so tragically suffered before her death,” Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a statement following the verdict. “No one could ever imagine that a trained nurse would beat, torture, and starve Samaya and her two adopted sisters as a means of instilling the defendant’s vision of discipline. The jury fully understood that she ultimately ignored the suffering of young Samaya which led to this child’s death.”

The tortures Emmanuel inflicted upon her children included forcing them to eat human feces, intentionally burning them on the stove, chaining them in chairs, physically abusing them, and withholding food and water, among other forms of torture, Miami NBC affiliate WTVJ reported.

According to the report, Emmanuel’s now-18-year-old adopted daughter provided emotional testimony about the horrors she and her sisters endured at the hands of their foster mother during the three-day trial that ended Monday evening.