Prosecutors Show “Rules” in Baby Grace Trial

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) _ A Galveston County jury has heard about nine “Rules for Riley” kept in a notebook by the mother and stepfather of 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers.

That’s as prosecutors near the end of their capital murder case against the girl’s stepfather, Royce Clyde Zeigler II, in Galveston.

Prosecutors also showed jurors three plastic bags and a plastic bin into which the child’s corpse was found when it washed up on a small island in Galveston Bay in October 2007. They also displayed the clothes and shoes in which her body was dressed.

Zeigler’s accused of killing the child during a July 2007 disciplinary session, but prosecutors aren’t seeking the death penalty. The girl’s mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, has already been sentenced to life for capital murder.

Emergency responders dubbed Riley “Baby Grace” until her remains were identified by relatives.

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