VIDEO: Is this Real!? Hysterics Break Out in a Bizarre Courtroom Scene

Erica Mae Butts and Shanita Latrice Cunningham screamed, wailed and collapsed in a South Carolina courtroom this week after being sentenced to life in prison.  They had been convicted of beating three year old Serenity Richardson to death in 2009 while she had been in their care.  The Daily Mail reported that Serenity had been visiting Butts, (her godmother) and Cunningham, who was Butts’s lover, for two weeks at their home in Summerville, South Carolina when the abuse took place.

After the judge pronounced that they would spend the rest of their lives in prison, they had to be pulled off the floor, rounded into chairs and wheeled out in a bizarre scene that almost looked more like a sketch comedy video than newsreel.  And are those prison stripes they’re wearing!?

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