Posted on 02/07/2023 11:10:17 AM PST by BenLurkin
Aiden Fucci, now 16, entered the surprise plea on the day he was set to face trial for stabbing Tristyn Bailey 114 times and leaving her body in a wooded area near their community.
“I just want to say I plea guilty and I’m sorry for the Bailey family and my family,” Fucci said in a brief statement to the court Monday.
Fucci is being charged as an adult, and prosecutors stressed they did not offer him any leniency in sentencing as part of the plea agreement.
Bailey had been socializing with both Fucci and another classmate before the crime, and she was last captured on a surveillance camera in a local cul-de-sac around 1:45 a.m.
Her family reported her missing after she failed to appear for a Mother’s Day breakfast with her family later that morning.
Prosecutors and the St. John’s County Sheriff’s Department both stressed that Bailey, a popular local teenager in the normally tranquil neighborhood, had dozens of defensive wounds that indicated a violent struggle for her life.
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I raised four, three daughters and one son. None of them were out in the early morning hours.
Pretty heavy victim blaming on this thread. Let’s blame the girl, or her parents, or anyone but the dirt bag who killed her. Over 100 times he stabbed her! That’s rage, that’s hatred, that’s evil. Think he’s all better now? I don’t.
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