BEND, Ore. – After nearly a month of often emotional testimony, it took a Deschutes County jury less than a day to find a Redmond couple guilty of murder by abuse and other charges Friday in the 2016 starvation death of their 5-year-old daughter, Maliyha Hope Garcia.

Estevan Garcia, 35, and Sacora Horn-Garcia, 33, were charged with murder by abuse and two counts of criminal mistreatment in the girl’s death, just a few days before Christmas. She weighed just 24 pounds at the time, and officials ruled her death was caused by starvation.

In a packed courtroom Friday afternoon, the husband and wife both were convicted unanimously by jurors of two counts of murder by abuse and two counts each of first-degree criminal mistreatment, one count for withholding food from the girl and the other for withholding medical care.

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