I really don't know what to say if they let this guy out.
Published:
04:53 EST, 27 January 2015
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Updated:
10:19 EST, 27 January 2015
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Child killer Ronald Salazar, who has
served a decade of a life sentence for the horrific murder of his
sister, has returned to court to be re-sentenced
A child
killer who has served a decade of a life sentence for the horrific
murder of his sister has returned to court to be re-sentenced, with the
possibility he could serve less jail time.
Ronald
Salazar was just 14 when he raped and strangled his 11-year-old sister
before slitting her throat in their South Miami Heights home in 2005, a
court heard.
Salazar's
return to court follows a decision by the US Supreme Court in 2012
banning mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for
juvenile killers.
Salazar
told Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Ellen Sue Venzer at the re-sentencing
that his entire life had been 'messed up' after his parents abandoned
him in El Salvador while they made their way into the United States in
1991.
He
claimed he had been left with 'abusive' relatives until age 10 when his
family finally called for him to make the three journey across the
Arizona desert and join them in Miami- where they then treated him as an
outcast. His parents, Samuel and Nuvia Salazar, didn't attend the
proceedings.
'I just wanted them to see everything I had gone through,' said Salazar, according to the
Miami Herald.
'I thought they were going to embrace my pain, that they were going to
say, 'I'm sorry, we left you there that whole time by yourself. 'It was
nothing like that. They said they had a rougher life, that I didn't have
the right to complain. I felt rejected.'
He
began to lash out and was committed to a hospital for a psychological
evaluation after threatening to kill himself and his family.
Salazar
murdered his little sister Marina 'Estefani' Salazar in July 2005 soon
after his release from hospital by cutting her throat from ear-to-ear.
He
then tried to cover his tracks by wiping the knife clean and making up a
story about men storming the house and killer her, the court heard.
It
took a jury just two hours at his trial in 2009 to convict him after
prosecutors produced DNA evidence and a videotaped confession. Salazar
had claimed he was insane and suffered a mental breakdown.
The
court in the trial heard he had hated his parents and killed his sister
Estefani as revenge for them leaving him in El Salvador.
Salazar
(left) murdered his little sister Marina 'Estefani' Salazar (right) in
July 2005 by strangling her and cutting her throat