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The Murderer OF Jorelys Rivera, 7, Is Sentenced
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Jan 17, 2012, 6:11:27 PM1/17/12
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Man guilty of killing Ga girl; body found in trash
Posted: 01/17/2012 12:55:48 PM MST
CANTON, Ga.輸 20-year-old maintenance man faces life in prison for
beating and killing a 7-year-old north Georgia girl, who disappeared
from a playground at her apartment complex and was found in a trash
bin.
Ryan Brunn pleaded guilty Tuesday to several charges including murder
and child molestation in the Dec. 2 killing of Jorelys Rivera
(JOR'-ih-lees ruh-VIR'-uh). He responded "Yes, sir," when a judge
asked if he was pleading guilty to several charges. The judge accepted
his plea and sentenced him to life without parole.
"I'd like to apologize for everything that's done. Lo Siento," Brunn
said, apologizing in Spanish as he took the stand briefly a second
time.
Brunn said he chose the girl because he happened to find her roller
skate and used it to lure her to a vacant apartment, where he killed
her, he told the judge.
He said he first sexually assaulted her.
"I didn't want her to go home and tell her mom or dad on me. So I cut
her," he told the Cherokee County judge.
He bound her arms with plastic ties in the bathtub and then taped her
face before cutting her with a razor he uses to slice carpet, he said.
When she didn't die immediately, he hit her about five times with a
"hammer-like object" and stabbed her in the chest. He stuffed her body
in a garbage bag and threw it into a trash compactor, he said.
Brunn spoke softly and candidly to the judge as members of Rivera's
family sat in the front row sobbing.
A statement from the girl's mother, Joselinne Rivera, was read in
court.
"The rest of my life I am going to feel terrible and destroyed because
of the harm you did to my daughter," Rivera said in the statement. "I
desire this man the worst possible of the world, and that they do to
him the worst so he suffers."
Brunn's defense attorney David Cannon addressed reporters after the
sentencing.
"He was remorseful. A child's life was lost and he was sentenced. And
that's the bottom line ladies and gentlemen. It's over," Cannon said.
Authorities found the child's body three days after her mother
reported her missing from the Canton apartment complex. After getting
rid of the body, Brunn said he returned to his apartment and then went
out with friends to Walmart before returning home to smoke pot and
meth.
Two days after the killing, Brunn began "freaking out" and wrote a
note on the back of a McDonald's receipt saying the girl's body was in
the trash compactor and taped it to the bin, he told the judge. When
the judge asked why he did that, he responded, "I was high."
Police say Brunn snatched the girl as she walked from the playground
to her apartment to get sodas for her friends.
Brunn was being held without bond at the Cherokee County jail. His
family has said he is innocent. The charges carried the possibility of
a death sentence if convicted, but prosecutors had not decided yet
whether to seek it.
Brunn has no known criminal past and he cleared background checks by
the company that runs the apartment complex where he had been working
about a month. Authorities say Brunn had keys to the apartment and the
trash compactor bin where Rivera's body was left.
"We're very glad this is over for us, and especially the family," said
Canton Police Chief Jeff Lance after the sentencing.
Posted: 01/17/2012 12:55:48 PM MST
CANTON, Ga.輸 20-year-old maintenance man faces life in prison for
beating and killing a 7-year-old north Georgia girl, who disappeared
from a playground at her apartment complex and was found in a trash
bin.
Ryan Brunn pleaded guilty Tuesday to several charges including murder
and child molestation in the Dec. 2 killing of Jorelys Rivera
(JOR'-ih-lees ruh-VIR'-uh). He responded "Yes, sir," when a judge
asked if he was pleading guilty to several charges. The judge accepted
his plea and sentenced him to life without parole.
"I'd like to apologize for everything that's done. Lo Siento," Brunn
said, apologizing in Spanish as he took the stand briefly a second
time.
Brunn said he chose the girl because he happened to find her roller
skate and used it to lure her to a vacant apartment, where he killed
her, he told the judge.
He said he first sexually assaulted her.
"I didn't want her to go home and tell her mom or dad on me. So I cut
her," he told the Cherokee County judge.
He bound her arms with plastic ties in the bathtub and then taped her
face before cutting her with a razor he uses to slice carpet, he said.
When she didn't die immediately, he hit her about five times with a
"hammer-like object" and stabbed her in the chest. He stuffed her body
in a garbage bag and threw it into a trash compactor, he said.
Brunn spoke softly and candidly to the judge as members of Rivera's
family sat in the front row sobbing.
A statement from the girl's mother, Joselinne Rivera, was read in
court.
"The rest of my life I am going to feel terrible and destroyed because
of the harm you did to my daughter," Rivera said in the statement. "I
desire this man the worst possible of the world, and that they do to
him the worst so he suffers."
Brunn's defense attorney David Cannon addressed reporters after the
sentencing.
"He was remorseful. A child's life was lost and he was sentenced. And
that's the bottom line ladies and gentlemen. It's over," Cannon said.
Authorities found the child's body three days after her mother
reported her missing from the Canton apartment complex. After getting
rid of the body, Brunn said he returned to his apartment and then went
out with friends to Walmart before returning home to smoke pot and
meth.
Two days after the killing, Brunn began "freaking out" and wrote a
note on the back of a McDonald's receipt saying the girl's body was in
the trash compactor and taped it to the bin, he told the judge. When
the judge asked why he did that, he responded, "I was high."
Police say Brunn snatched the girl as she walked from the playground
to her apartment to get sodas for her friends.
Brunn was being held without bond at the Cherokee County jail. His
family has said he is innocent. The charges carried the possibility of
a death sentence if convicted, but prosecutors had not decided yet
whether to seek it.
Brunn has no known criminal past and he cleared background checks by
the company that runs the apartment complex where he had been working
about a month. Authorities say Brunn had keys to the apartment and the
trash compactor bin where Rivera's body was left.
"We're very glad this is over for us, and especially the family," said
Canton Police Chief Jeff Lance after the sentencing.
Oglethorpe
Jan 18, 2012, 2:23:48 AM1/18/12
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Explain how sex offender registries worked in this case.
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