Peggy Hilt wanted to be a good mother. But day after day, she got out of bed feeling like a failure. No matter what she tried, she couldn't connect with Nina, the 2-year -old girl she'd adopted from Russia as an infant . The preschooler pulled away whenever Hilt tried to hug or kiss her. Nina was physically aggressive with her 4-year-old sister, who had been adopted from Ukraine, and had violent tantrums . Whenever Hilt wasn't watching, she destroyed the family's furniture and possessions. "Every day with Nina had become a struggle," she recalls now. 

As the girl grew older, things got worse. Hilt fell into a deep depression. She started drinking heavily, something she'd never done before. Ashamed, she hid her problem from everyone, including her husband. 

On the morning of July 1, 2005, Hilt was packing for a family vocation, all the while swallowing one beer after another and growing increasingly angry and impatient with Nina's deeds. "Everything she did just got to me," Hilt said. When Hilt caught her reaching into her diaper and smearing feces on the walls and furniture, "a year and a half of frustration came to a head," Hilt says. "I snapped . I felt this uncontrollable rage." 

Then Hilt did something unthinkable. She grabbed Nina around the neck, shook her and then dropped her to the floor, where she kicked her repeatedly before dragging her up to her room, punching her as they went. "I had never hit a child before," she says. "I felt horrible and promised myself that this would never happen again." But _ . Nina woke up with a fever, and then started throwing up. The next day she stopped breathing. By the time the ambulance got the child to the hospital, she was dead. 

Hilt is now serving a 19-year sentence for second-degree murder in a Virginia prison. She and her husband divorced, and he is raising their other daughter. She realizes the horror of her crime and says she isn't looking for sympathy. "There is no punishment severe enough for what I did," she told NEWSWEEK in an interview at the prison. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who was Nina grabbed by at her neck?
2. Who grabbed Nina by her scruff?
3. Who snatched up Nina by her neck?
Q2:
1. Who is Peggy Hilt?
2. What was Peggy Hilt's relation to Nina?
3. What was Peggy Hilt to Nina?
Q3:
1. How old is Nina?
2. What is Nina's age?
3. How old is the Russian girl Peggy Hilt adopted?
Q4:
1. Is Peggy Hilt the biological mother of Nina?
2. Is Nina Peggy Hilt's biological daughter?
3. Did Peggy Hilt give birth to Nina?
Q5:
1. Did Peggy Hilt have any kids besides Nina?
2. Were there any children in Peggy Hilt's home apart from Nina?
3. Had Peggy Hilt adopted any kids in addition to Nina?
Q6:
1. How old was Peggy Hilt's other adopted daughter, besides Nina?
2. How old was Peggy's Hilt's adopted child that was not Nina?
3. How old was Nina's adopted sibling?
Q7:
1. What illness was Nina's adoptive mother suffering from?
2. What illness was Peggy Hilt afflicted with?
3. What sickness was Peggy Hilt suffering from?
Q8:
1. Was Peggy Hilt sober?
2. Did Peggy Hilt abstain from alcohol?
3. Did Peggy Hilt avoid the consumption of alcohol?
Q9:
1. How much alcohol did Peggy Hilt tend to consume?
2. What was Peggy Hilt's level of alcohol consumption?
3. How much would Patty Hilt imbibe?
Q10:
1. What did Peggy Hilt catch Nina doing?
2. What was Nina caught doing by her adoptive mother?
3. What did Peggy Hilt find her adoptive daughter in the middle of doing?
Q11:
1. Did Peggy Hilt react calmy to her adoptive daughter's actions?
2. Did Peggy Hilt have a measured response to what Nina was doing?
3. Was Peggy Hilt alright with what she found Nina doing?
Q12:
1. What was Peggy Hilt's reaction to Nina's actions?
2. What did Peggy Hilt do when she found Nina with her diaper?
3. How did Peggy Hilt react to what she found Nina doing?
Q13:
1. Did Nina recover from her injuries?
2. Was Nina alright after Peggy Hilt beat her?
3. Did Nina make a recovery after she was choked by Peggy?
Q14:
1. What happened to Nina after her beating?
2. What was Nina's ultimate fate?
3. What happened to Nina after Peggy choked her?
Q15:
1. What was Peggy Hilt's fate?
2. What happened to Peggy Hilt after she beat her adoptive daughter?
3. What were the consequences for Peggy Hilt of her actions?
Q16:
1. What happened with Peggy's Hilt's husband?
2. What was the fate of the man married to Peggy Hilt?
3. What went down between Peggy Hilt and her husband?
Q17:
1. Was Peggy Hilt a successful parent?
2. Was Peggy Hilt a good mother?
3. Was Peggy Hilt skilled at being a mom?
Q18:
1. Did Peggy Hilt want to be a good mother?
2. Was it Peggy Hilt's desire to parent well?
3. Did Peggy Hilt wish to be a successful parent?
Q19:
1. On what date did Peggy Hilt beat her daughter?
2. What was the day that Nina died?
3. When did Peggy Hilt's crime tkae place?
