A Louisiana woman was found guilty this week of second degree murder in the death of an 18-month-0ld girl she allegedly shook to death in 2020.

Tatianna Burns, 42, faces a mandatory life sentence without possibility of probation, parole, or suspension, the Caddo Parish Attorney’s Office said.

According to the Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate, Burns admitted to investigators that shook the baby girl, Angel Wong, for nearly an hour trying to wake her up.

“Burns demonstrated how she shook Wong by doing hand motions that indicated that she was upside-down, sideways, vertical and back-and-forth,” a detective wrote in an application for a warrant for her arrest. “Burns even admitted to holding Wong upside down by her legs while shaking her. Burns also demonstrated that she held the face and behind the head of Wong while shaking her back and forth. Burns advised that while she was on her way to the hospital with Wong, she was stopping at red lights and shaking her again, but she would not respond.”

Burns trial began earlier this week, but in the middle of jury selection, she abruptly exercised her right to a bench trial instead of a jury trial.

District Judge Donald E. Hathaway Jr. heard testimony from 11 witnesses, the Caddo Parish Attorney’s Office said, including four doctors who testified about the baby’s fatal bleeding and swelling that resulted from “acute abusive head trauma.”

Burns was caring for the infant but not related to her on June 5, 2020, when the incident took place. Testimony at trial also indicated that she had been caring for an unrelated toddler in 2013 who was removed from her home after an investigation determined she “had tortured the child.”

Burns will be formally sentenced on July 23.

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[Featured image: Tatianna Burns/Caddo Parish Attorney’s Office]