Posted on 05/14/2010 4:50:45 PM PDT by onyx
John Albert Gardner III reacts angrily to a statement by Candice Montayo
John Albert Gardner III’s victims had their say in court today, reading prepared statements that were heavy on loss and anger.
Six people in all tried to articulate the toll Gardner’s violence took on their lives, many of them saying he would burn in hell as part of his punishment and criticizing the system that let such heinous crimes take place.
Brent and Kelly King, the parents of murdered Poway 17-year-old Chelsea King, also directed some of their anger at Gardner’s father, largely absent from his life, and his mother, who they said should have acted to protect the community during the year between Amber’s disappearance and Chelsea’s death.
“Your mother, Cathy Osborne, knew what you were capable of and did nothing to protect us from you,” Brent King said. “She knew who you were after you violently beat and tried to rape that poor 13-year-old girl a decade ago.”
Gardner served five years in prison for that 2000 beating and molesting of a former Rancho Bernardo neighbor and spent three years on parole.
Carrie McGonigle, mother of murdered Escondido 14-year-old Amber Dubois, said she wished she could have traded places with her daughter the morning of her abduction so she could have fought off Gardner.
Gardner largely cast his eyes downward and sat grim-faced, taking deep breaths throughout the hourlong hearing in which he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
But he reacted twice to what was said to him, once when the mother of murder victim Chelsea King, 17, of Poway, urged him to “Look at me” and once when a woman he assaulted prompted his only words of the day.
Candice Moncayo, the 22-year-old jogger who was assaulted by Gardner in December but escaped after elbowing him in the face, ended her tearful remarks, saying, “I came here today ... finally, to ask him how his nose is.”
Gardner immediately appeared agitated and while whispering to his attorney said, “She did it for publicity.”
Gardner was formally sentenced to serve three consecutive life terms in prison without parole, plus an additional 24 years, for raping and killing Amber in February 2009 and Chelsea a year later, and for assaulting Moncayo. No one spoke on his behalf.
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CA's system failed.
Sometimes, evil does have a face.
Rope Tree end of discussion
CA’s system has been a failure for decades
life in prison? just kill the bastard already.
The fathers of these children should kill him. The Bible says that a nation that does not atone for shed blood brings a curse on itself.
Don’t drop the soap, tough guy.
Wondering why we have death penalty on the books if it isn’t an option anymore.
He has no remorse. He’s actually offended that someone would dare to tell him what a monster he is.
He’s a young guy. Why should the citizens he terrorized be responsible for his upkeep for the rest of his life? Just get the needle ready and finish the deed.
What a punk. He’s to many years of getting his ass pounded.
Sadly, stories like this are all over the country. How many pedophiles are released. They are never cured. They repeat and go back until they die.
I agree rope/tree ends it all, cheaply too.
Honestly, I do not know how a mom or dad can not want to take justice in their own hands. God Bless this family. K
Unfortunately, it will probably take him around 50 more years to get there (paid for by the citizens of California).
Did you see on the news that he met with Amber’s mom and finally told her how he grabbed Amber and killed her?
I sure hope his life in prison is a living hell and maybe a short one at that.
Never cured. Kill them or LWOP on first conviction.
Right, unless prison justice shortens his life.
i support the death penalty or LWOP as well. God rest the souls who have suffered at their hands.
Prison will not be kind to him. Inmates have a code of their own. And child molesters are marked men.
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