A Hawthorne couple convicted of murder and torture in the killing of the woman’s 7-year-old daughter in 2021 were sentenced Friday, Sept. 12, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, authorities said.

Ida Helen Brockman, 34, and Malachi Xavier Whalen, 33, were convicted by an Airport Superior Court jury in July following a 10-week trial, prosecutors said.

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They were arrested in September 2021 after taking Brockman’s daughter, A’Miya Dawson, to the emergency room of a Willowbrook hospital after she became unresponsive, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. At the hospital, doctors determined that the girl’s injuries did not line up with statements made by Brockman and Whalen.

Detectives also searched the couple’s apartment and found additional evi

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