Posted on 07/22/2002 12:48:41 PM PDT by wimpycat
STANTON, Calif., July 22 — A 27-year-old California man was expected to be charged Monday in the kidnapping and slaying of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. The suspect’s mother told NBC News that she had not asked her son whether he killed the child, but she said she “hopes God forgives him if he’s found guilty.”
THE WOMAN, Adelina Avila, said on NBC’s “Today” show that she found it hard to believe that her son, Alejandro, who was arrested Friday but has yet to be charged, could be a kidnapper, rapist and killer. She said he was the kind of person who was “joking all the time. ... People liked him.”
But she said she also acknowledged the amount of evidence against her son, and she added the fact that her son’s ex-girlfriend lived a few houses away from Samantha’s home in Stanton.
Adelina Avila also asked the Runnion family to forgive her son if he is found guilty and noted that fliers had gone up around her apartment “judging the whole family” for the crime. “We’re going to be prisoners in our own apartment,” she said.
Alejandro Avila was to have been arraigned Monday afternoon at the Orange County Courthouse, but the arraignment was put off until late August for unknown reasons, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department told NBC News. The charges instead were to be read in court with Avila participating by video from jail, but he will not have to enter any plea. A news conference was planned afterward.
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said Sunday on “Today” that his team had yet to decide whether to seek the death penalty against Avila, 27, who works on an assembly line at a medical supply company in nearby Temecula...
"Not my child..."
Maybe we could set up a special section for she and Allen Iverson's mom...
I'm awful glad to read this statement. Last night, when I heard that they didn't know if they'd seek the death penalty or not, I got really upset. Then I thought to myself, these murdering-rapist-childkillers feel compelled to tell others in prisons how much fun they had raping and murdering and they often go into detail about it. Sorta like reliving it. Well, then I thought maybe they should just give him life without ANY chance of parole and let the other inmates sort it out for us.
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