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Kimberly Dawn Trenor (20), reacts as Judge David Garner polls the jury onu00a0after findingu00a0her guilty of capital murder for theu00a0death of her daughter Riley Ann Sawyers, known as "Baby Grace."

A mother was convicted of capital murder on Monday for the death of her two-year-old daughter, who was whipped with belts and flung onto a tile floor to teach her manners, before her body was dumped in a box in Galveston Bay. Jurors deliberated less than two hours before finding Kimberly Trenor guilty. She received an automatic sentence of life without parole. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty.

"Justice has been served today. Today it's about Riley" u2014 the victim, Galveston County District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk said after the verdict.