NRI woman found guilty of starving step-daughter

Sheetal Ranot, 35, was found guilty of assault and endangering the welfare of a child for the brutal abuse of her stepdaughter Maya Ranot in 2014 when she was about 12 years old. In one instance, the child was hit with a broken metal broom handle that cut her wrist down to the bone and required hospitalisation and surgery.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said a jury weighed the evidence, which included the ‘once undernourished’ victim’s testimony in court, and found Ranot guilty of abusing the girl for more than a year and half. 

The pre-teen was locked in her bedroom by her step-mother without food or even water for extended periods of time.