Her mother broke down at sentencing of murderer Carlos Salazar Cruz. The drunk and drugged illegal repeatedly struck the young girl with a pipe and used the bloody weapon to savagely sexually abuse her as she laid unconscious. A good Samaritan called the police who found Cruz covered in his victim’s blood with the gory pipe in hand. Noting that Cruz slipped into the country illegally, Justice Buchter noted: "We need this defendant in this country like we need the plague." Cruz will be deported back to Mexico upon completion of his 22 year sentence.