Horrific: Grandmother arrested for killing 8-year-old in child abuse case (PICTURED)

Grandmother Helen M. Ford, of Chicago, faces a murder charge in the death of Gizzell. She is being held on no bail.

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Grandmother Helen M. Ford, of Chicago, faces a murder charge in the death of Gizzell. She is being held on no bail.

A Chicago grandmother accused of killing her 8-year-old granddaughter inflicted abuse for so long that the dead little girl had maggots living in a head wound that had gone untreated, cops said in a shocking case.

Helen M. Ford, 51, eventually strangled and beat Gizzell Kiara Ford to death, cops say, ending weeks, maybe months, of systematic abuse.

The grandmother is held on no bail and faces a murder charge.

The details of the grisly and horrifying crime were unveiled Sunday by prosecutors who presented a disturbing case against the girl’s caretaker and, police say, executioner.

Cops found the girl “cold” and dead when they responded to a call of a person not breathing around 11:15 a.m. Friday, the Chicago Tribune reported.

The girl lived with her grandmother and bedridden father, both of whom were home when the girl died. Ford initially told cops the girl inflicted the injuries herself, but police found several bruises, burns and cuts on her body, lying face up in a bedroom in the home.

Some of the blunt force trauma happened so long ago that maggots had hatched in a head wound and moved to the front of the girl’s scalp while she was still living, prosecutors said while detailing the case in court Sunday. The horrific list of abuse also included deep cuts on her buttocks, ligature marks on her ankles and wrists and possible cigarette burns on her body, prosecutors said.

Ford kept the little girl away from her family and friends, Gizzell’s uncle, Osvaldo Mercado, told the Tribune.

“Helen blocked everybody,” Mercado, 30, said. “She would say, ‘Gizzell can’t talk – she’s in the shower, or on punishment.’ It was an excuse every time we called.”

Blood-splattered twine, cables and a pole were found in the girl’s home during the investigation. Blood was found on the bedroom wall near where her body was found, prosecutors said.

The horrifying crime has family members mourning the girl’s death.

“She was outgoing; she spoke to everybody,” Mercado said of little Gizzell. “It was like one big party when she got together with her cousins. She had a brain; she had manners.”

Read more: Daily Mail

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