S. Fla. Teen Guilty Of Raping, Killing Sister
POSTED: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
UPDATED: 7:06 am EDT October 21,
2009
  WPLG-TV Image Ronald Eric Salazar was guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder and sexual battery. |
MIAMI -- South Florida jurors have rejected an insanity plea from a teen accused of raping and killing his younger sister in 2005.After two hours of deliberations Tuesday, a Miami-Dade jury found 19-year-old Ronald Eric Salazar guilty of first-degree murder and sexual battery.Prosecutors said that Salazar, at age 14, was methodical when he raped and strangled his 11-year-old sister, slit her throat and then covered her body in a Winnie the Pooh comforter.Salazar's defense attorney had said Salazar was driven insane by parents who abandoned him to poverty for more than a decade in his native El Salvador, then smuggled him to Miami where he felt unloved by his family.Immediately following Salazar's conviction, the judge sentenced the teen to two life terms.
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