Posted on 10/16/2024 6:40:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The woman convicted of luring five young men into a Long Island park where they were attacked by MS-13 gang members, who killed four of them, was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday.
The brutal 2017 attack shocked Central Islip, and the nation.
Leniz Escobar, 24, also known as "La Diablita, or "Little Devil," was convicted in April 2022 in connection with the murders of Justin Llivicura, Michael Lopez, Jorge Tigre and Jefferson Villalobos. The victims were aged 16-20. She was sentenced Tuesday.
Escobar was accused of luring them into the park to smoke marijuana. Once they got there, gang members surrounded and attacked them with machetes, knives, an axe and clubs.
Prosecutors say they were attacked because MS-13 gangsters believed they were "members of a rival gang, at least two of whom had disrespected the MS-13 by posting photos on social media."
Escobar bragged about the attack, prosecutors say Prosecutors say that Escobar bragged to other MS-13 members about her role in the killings after the attack.
"The defendant demonstrated her allegiance to the MS-13 gang by luring four young men to their slaughter," U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said. "It is my hope that the justice meted out today will provide some comfort to those who lost loved ones to this senseless gang violence."
"Her subsequent bragging of her inhumane trap to ranked members exemplifies Escobar's perverted prioritization of gang status over human life. May today's sentencing provide some justice to the victims' families," FBI Assistant Director in Charge Dennehy said.
More than a dozen MS-13 gang members and associates have since been charged in connection with the attack. Escobar is the fifth to have been sentenced.
Free room and board for 50 years while four people are dead—and all at the taxpayer’s expense. Who came out ahead here? Take a guess....and who lost out? Take a guess.
Maybe he’ll get out in 2 weeks for good behavior.
They’re not sending their best.
Not funny, not at all.
The cartels and gangs are though. The positive in this is she will soon belong to someone meaner than she ever thought she was and they’ll trade her around for contraband.
Hope she can’t have any chance at parole.
She committed the crime in April 2017, was convicted in April 2022, and sentenced in October 2024? What happened to our justice system, other than setting it up to burn as much money as possible on any given case? I’m sure that the taxpayers covered the 7.5 years of defense expenses. Outrageous!
He is a she.
The perpetrator won and the taxpayers lost big time.
Or brightest.
And the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America lost big time. As was the plan.
“La Diablita is more accurately translated as “The Little She-Devil”.
MEANINGLESS
Well, the poor little Menendez brothers were misunderstood, and should be let loose.
This guy is also a victim, and should have been protected, not prosecuted.
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