The bereaved family of Rachel Morin, the wife of Maryland who was murdered by an illegal immigrant from El Salvadoran in 2023, shared powerful words before and after the attacker on Monday.
A few hours before the audience, Maman Patty Morin said Fox News that she didn’t know if she might think 24 -year -old apologies Victor Martinez-HernandezWho is also accused of having murdered a woman in her native country before crossing the border in the southern United States.
“To be honest, I do not know, because even if he was talking, I would believe what he said? If he said he was sorry, can I believe that he is really or if he simply tells you, to hope for less,” said Patty Fox and friends Anchor when asked if she wanted apologies.
Rachel, a 37-year-old mother, was found brutally raped, struck and strangled to death on the side of the Ma & pa Heritage Trail in the county of Harford in August 2023. Martinez-Hernandez was decree In Tulsa, Oklahoma, almost a year later, in June 2024.
The criminal affiliated with MS-13 was found guilty of first degree, first-degree rape, third degree sexual offense and abduction in the death of Rachel in April of this year.
He was sentenced In life imprisonment without possibility of parole later Monday after the court heard the emotional impact declarations of Patty, the brothers and sisters of Rachel and four of his children, who are now 9, 12, 15 and 20 years old.
The three youngest children made their affirmations Via audio recordings, noted WBal.
“She was a good mom,” said Rachel’s son. “Whenever I see a photo of her, I think of the life I had with her and my four sisters. I miss her. “
Rachel’s eldest daughter, Faye McMahon, had planned to deliver her declaration in person, but had chosen to have the Harford County State prosecutor, Alison Healey instead aloud.
“I had to relive the two worst days of my life to write this,” wrote McMahon, who is a mother herself.
She continued to call her mother “kind, strong, honest, determined and funny”.
Speaking directly to the judge, McMahon wrote: “You can help protect other mothers and girls by giving him the maximum sentence. He is bad and he should never be free. ”
Patty told court that she was now suffering from nightmares, anxiety and insomnia.
“The depths of sorrow equivalent to the depths of love.
Michael Morin, Rachel’s older brother, said: “We felt broken, discouraged, we cried, we shouted, we suffered.”
He then quoted his faith for his ability to forgive Martinez-Hernandez for his vicious attack.
“I stand here and I say that I forgive you,” said Michael, looking at the accused.
Rebekah Morin, Rachel’s sister, wrote in a statement: “I am exhausted – two years of complete and total exhaustion.”
The family’s request for the maximum penalty has been answered, with the County Circuit Court of Harford, Yolanda Curtin, saying to Martinez-Hernandez: “You are not a candidate for rehabilitation. There is simply no hope to rehabilitate yourself.”
“You took a life that did not belong to you. Your actions not only brutalized a young woman, but also terrorized a community. The MA & PA path is a place of beauty … Your actions have transformed this into a place of terror,” added Curtin by transmitting the perpetuity conviction.
While Patty addressed hypothetical apologies to the killer of her daughter before the conviction, none was proposed.
In fact, Healey revealed that a doctor who had evaluated Martinez-Hernandez found that he had expressed zero remorse for his crimes by “laughing and joking” during the evaluation, the Washington Post reported.
Investigators said they also found juvenile pornography during a excavation of his phone, noted the point of sale.
“I hope that knowing that this monster will spend every day from the rest of his life behind bars will give them a certain peace while they will spend in the next chapter,” said Healey outside the court after the hearing.
Patty said she was “grateful” to the judge to have pronounced the maximum sentence.
“I felt relieved that he will never see the day of the day outside the prison and that another person will not feel this sorrow,” she added.
Another sister of Rachel, Erin Layman, also reacted positively to the sentence.
“Life, the more life, plus 40, we could not ask anything better. So that gives us a closure. It does not bring Rachel back. There will always be an empty vacuum in our lives and in the life of children,” she said.
“I do not think that justice is possible because justice is that Rachel is with his children and that Victor is no longer here, and it is not possible,” said Matt McMahon, the father of the oldest child in Rachel, after the hearing. “But I think we had the best thing we can get.”
Homeland Security dry. Kristi Noem also reacted to the conviction, saying: “This illegal criminal foreigner should never have been in our country in the first place. Rachel should always be here by looking at his 5 children grow up. ”
“We hear too much in the consumer media on SOB stories of gang members and illegal criminals and not enough of their victims. May God bless Rachel and his family,” she added in a statement obtained by Breitbart News.
The acting director of immigrants and customs (ICE), Todd Lyons, also said that the illegal foreigner “should never have been in this country in the first place”:
“While the justice system has provided a certain closure, nothing can compensate for the pain of losing a mother; a girl; a friend,” he said in a social media position. “Rachel Morin was stolen from his family by a reprehensible criminal foreigner who should never have been in this country in the first place.”
Lyon added: “Our hearts are with the Morin family and all the families of those who have lost a loved one because of illegal extraterrestrial crime. Due to them, we will never lose sight of our responsibility to protect and serve the American public. ”
Olivia Rondeau is a Breitbart News political journalist based in Washington, DC. Find it X / Twitter And Instagram.
