MEXICAN COURT GIVES MAN 40 YEARS FOR VALLEY CRIMES.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer Ten years after the crime, a Mexican national has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the rape and slaying of a 3-year-old North Hollywood girl and the shooting of her mother, officials said Tuesday. Reyes Mejia Rosales, 38, was arrested following a rooftop foot chase last July after Mexican authorities, Texas sheriff's deputies and LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officers found his hide-out in Matamoros, Mexico. Rosales - known in Mexico as Jose Reyes Simon Rosales - was prosecuted in Acapulco on charges including murder, attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. , kidnapping, child molestation Child molestation is a crime involving a range of indecent or sexual activities between an adult and a child, usually under the age of 14. In psychiatric terms, these acts are sometimes known as pedophilia. and lewd acts against a minor. ``He is going to receive a 40-year maximum sentence for the crime here,'' said Detective Art Zorrilla, with the LAPD's Foreign Prosecution Unit. Rosales had faced the death penalty in charges filed first in the United States, but the Mexican government refused to extradite ex·tra·dite v. ex·tra·dit·ed, ex·tra·dit·ing, ex·tra·dites v.tr. 1. To give up or deliver (a fugitive, for example) to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority. 2. him to the U.S. under treaties that preclude extradition in death penalty cases. Zorrilla credited the work of Detective Ted Ball of the LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division Robbery Homicide Division (RHD) was an American police procedural television series on CBS, created by Barry Schindel with famed executive producer Michael Mann. for tracking the case for a decade. Ball was the original investigator in the killing of 3-year-old Cathy Velasco - who was molested mo·lest tr.v. mo·lest·ed, mo·lest·ing, mo·lests 1. To disturb, interfere with, or annoy. 2. To subject to unwanted or improper sexual activity. and shot in the head April 22, 1986, on a side street in North Hollywood. The girl's mother, Martha Garcia, had worked with Rosales at a garment shop. On the day of the slaying, Garcia and Rosales had met at a North Hollywood restaurant where Rosales offered to help her do her taxes. They were in his car when the shooting took place, police said. Police said the two struggled over a weapon and Rosales shot Garcia twice and left her for dead, throwing her in the gutter. After the murder, he sexually assaulted the 3-year-old, shot her and threw her in the gutter as well. Martha Garcia was left a quadriplegic quadriplegic /quad·ri·ple·gic/ (-ple´jik) 1. of, pertaining to, or characterized by quadriplegia. 2. an individual with quadriplegia. after the shooting and was thought dead by the suspect, who couldn't remember her name when he was interviewed by authorities after his arrest, officials said. The girl was taken to Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, where she died two days after the shooting. |
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