Relative accused of strangling, raping 6-year-old girl
Posted on 01/28/2003 2:43:10 PM PST by MeekOneGOP
Relative accused of strangling, raping 6-year-old girl
01/28/2003
BIG SPRING, Texas - A visiting relative of a 6-year-old girl has been charged with murder after allegedly strangling and raping the girl then setting a fire in her room, authorities said Tuesday.
Miguel Lopez Jr., 18, of Clovis, N.M., was arrested about three blocks from the home about 30 minutes after the fire was reported about 5 a.m. Sunday.
Lopez, who had been staying the family for a few days, remained jailed Tuesday on $1 million bond.
His arrest came after family members named him as a suspect, Big Spring police Lt. Terry Chamness said. Police did not disclose how the suspect and the girl were related.
Several people were in the house at the time of the fire, and family members put it out by the time firefighters arrived, Big Spring police Sgt. Roger Sweatt said. The fire caused only minor damage and was confined to one room, officials said.
Howard County Justice of the Peace Bennie Green released preliminary autopsy results Tuesday that showed the girl was strangled and raped. A final report from the medical examiner's office in Lubbock probably will take about a month, Green said.
I would prefer what would be called cruel and unusual punishment. Simple death is too good for anyone killing a child. A pity our founding fathers didn't think to include a few exceptions.
...Then God takes it....
If it were in my power, I would reach back in time for a sterner justice, and have this P.O.S. BURNED AT THE STAKE.
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