Teen guilty of raping and murdering sister
MIAMI (AP) – 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, then slit her throat.
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.