A Florida lady was sentenced to life in jail Monday for the 2020 homicide of her boyfriend, who she sealed in a suitcase in a single day till he suffocated and died whereas she taunted him.
Sarah Boone, 47, smiled in an Orlando courtroom after Circuit Decide Michael Kraynick sentenced the convicted killer who was discovered responsible of second-degree homicide in October for the demise of her boyfriend Jorge Torres Jr.
Boone had trapped Torres, 42, in a suitcase in a single day and recorded a video of herself taunting him earlier than leaving him to die.
A jury took solely 90 minutes to seek out her responsible after a 10-day trial by which Boone claimed her boyfriend abused her.
Torres’ household packed the courtroom Monday and a number of other kin spoke concerning the impression of his demise earlier than the sentencing, pouring out their grief over his torturous demise.
“Generally after I look out the window, I’m ready for him to return and say, ‘Mother, I really like you,’” his mom Blanca Torres stated.
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Certainly one of Torres Jr.’s daughters, Anna Victoria Torres, detailed the psychological well being points she has suffered since her father’s demise, together with persistent despair and anxiousness. She stated that for the primary 12 months, she would get up screaming and “wishing I used to be having a nightmare, solely to get up and keep in mind over again that my father is gone.”
Boone took the stand earlier than her sentencing in a last-ditch effort to sway favor her approach. She had confirmed to be a troublesome consumer all through her trial and cycled by means of a whopping 9 attorneys, as reported by WESH.
Boone and her protection workforce had spent the trial arguing that Torres had been abusive and that she solely killed him as a result of she was ailed by “battered partner syndrome,” WESH reported.
“I forgive myself for falling in love with a monster. And regardless of how grotesque he might develop into, I nonetheless liked him, hoped and forgave,” Boone stated.
She alleged that Torres Jr. had “kicked, punched, spit on, raped, stabbed, [and] choked” her all through their relationship.
Regardless of her accusations in opposition to him, she requested for forgiveness for her lover’s demise.
“I didn’t imply for this to occur. Forgive me Jorge,” she pleaded. “Forgive me Torres household.”
The February 2020 homicide began throughout an evening of ingesting and a recreation of hide-and-seek, based on a information launch from State Legal professional Andrew Bain.
Torres Jr. had hidden within the suitcase as a part of the sport. Boone then zipped the suitcase up, recorded herself taunting him as he pleaded to be launched, and went to mattress.
“Within the movies she recorded, the sufferer could possibly be heard telling the defendant he couldn’t breathe and asking to be let loose of the suitcase. Boone responded with, ‘That’s what you get,’ ‘That’s what I really feel like whenever you cheat on me’ and different taunts,” the information launch learn.
Torres was useless by the next morning, having suffocated sooner or later within the evening.
Boone claimed she thought he would have the ability to get himself out as a result of two of his fingers have been poking out of the suitcase, based on an arrest affidavit from the Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace.
She initially pleaded not responsible to the fees and later rejected a plea provide of a 15-year sentence.
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