After week of abuse, 3-year-old boy dies
Here's a sick bastard who makes the case for the juvenile death penalty:
A 12-year-old accused of raping and murdering a 3-year-old boy bragged that he "could do anything he wanted" to the terrified tot, a prosecutor said Friday.
The older child's mother, Marisol Alverio, "knew what was going on and did nothing to stop it," Assistant District Attorney Brett Vottero said at Alverio's bail hearing. Instead, she left little Jeremy Rosario Milan with the older boy while she went to a Christmas party with a friend, Vottero said.
Judge W. Michael Ryan ordered Alverio held on $200,000 bail on charges of murder and reckless endangerment of a child. She has pleaded innocent to the charges.
Her son, who has not been identified because of his age, is charged with murder and rape in the death of the 3-year-old, who was left in Alverio's care while his own mother traveled to Puerto Rico. Jeremy died on Dec. 19 after enduring seven days of abuse at the hands of the older boy, according to prosecutors.
Vottero said other children who lived in Alverio's house told authorities that the 12-year-old repeatedly struck Jeremy and threatened to hit him "so hard he wouldn't remember where he was born" if he cried or told.
Jeremy was also raped at least twice and allegedly forced to perform other sexual acts on the boy during the week he stayed with the family, Vottero said.
I'd jacked up that mother, too.