article_snippet: An Arizona mother kept An Arizona mother locked in a closet, starved and beat her daughter for years until eventually her daughter killed the little girl, stuffed her daughter body into a suitcase and threw her body in the trash, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday as the woman’s trial got under way.
article_snippet: In that case, her mother pleaded no contest to corporal punishment and served about four years in prison before her mother was released on parole in May 2010.
article_snippet: her mother oldest child, then 14, told police her mother routinely beat the children.
article_snippet: The trial is expected to conclude in early May.
highlights_snippet: Prosecutor said on first day of murder trial Hunterkept Hunter daughter locked in a closet, starved and beat her daughter .