Gizzy was tied to her father's bed for up to a week at a time and denied food and water, testified her cousin, Zamar Winters, now 16. Winters said Gizzy was only set free to use the bathroom, and he recalled her once trying to sneak a drink from the toilet. On her last Fourth of July, she had tried to jump out a second-floor window in an apparent suicide attempt, he said, but her grandmother grabbed her by the back of her shirt.