The second term is pejorative and unfair; however, it is attention-grabbing.
"Killer says he’s sorry in Peru" January 12, 2012|By Frank Bajak
LIMA - Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty yesterday to the 2010 murder of a young Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day after the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect.
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“Yes, I want to plead guilty,’’ he told the panel of three judges that will decide his fate, hoping for a reduced sentence. “I wanted from the first moment to confess sincerely. I truly am sorry for this act. I feel very bad.’’
Aww, poor kid.
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He bowed his head later when his lawyer, Jose Jimenez, argued that van der Sloot killed Stephany Flores, 21, as a result of “extreme psychological trauma’’ he suffered from being “persecuted’’ over the disappearance of Natalee Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba, “something he says he never did and for which no evidence at all exists.’’
How f***ing weak!
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The victim’s father, Ricardo Flores, a circus impresario and former race car driver, attended the opening of the trial but not yesterday’s hearing.
Reached by phone before van der Sloot’s plea, he said he could not bear to even watch the proceedings on TV.
Van der Sloot continues to be dogged by the case of Holloway, 19, of Mountain Brook, Ala., who disappeared during a high school graduation trip in 2005 to Aruba, where van der Sloot grew up.
She was last seen leaving a nightclub with him. Her body has never been found.
The case received a storm of media attention and the tall, garrulous Dutchman became a staple of true-crime TV shows, in several interviews describing himself as a pathological liar. In a clandestinely taped conversation, he is seen telling a Dutch TV reporter he was involved in Holloway’s disappearance.
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"A Peruvian court yesterday sentenced Joran van der Sloot to 28 years in prison for the murder of a young woman he met at a Lima casino, even as the family of US teenager Natalee Holloway sought to have him prosecuted in the United States over her disappearance in 2005....
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"Berenson back in Peru before deadline
LIMA - Lori Berenson has returned to Peru from a holiday trip to New York well ahead of the court-set deadline for the American convicted of aiding leftist Peruvian rebels in the 1990s, her lawyer said yesterday.
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Berenson, 42, arrived Thursday night with her 2-year-old son, Salvador, said Anibal Apari, her attorney and the child’s father.
“She’s at home now and is returning to a normal life,’’ Apari told the Associated Press. He and Berenson met in prison and are now separated....
The former Massachusetts Institute of Technology student, whose parents are college professors, is not permitted to leave Peru permanently until her sentence ends in 2015.
The decision last month by a three-judge appeals court to allow Berenson to travel overturned a lower court ruling and prompted an outcry among many Peruvians.
“I can’t help but show my annoyance, my disappointment at this situation, in which terrorists are being allowed to leave the country while still on parole,’’ President Ollanta Humala said while Berenson was abroad.
Peru’s Congress has since approved legislation prohibiting courts from allowing trips outside the country for parolees convicted of terrorism.
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"26 die in fire at drug rehab home
LIMA - A fire swept through a private rehabilitation center for addicts in Peru’s capital yesterday, killing at least 26 people and injuring 10 as firefighters punched holes through walls to rescue residents trapped inside. A resident of the “Christ is Love’’ center for drug and alcohol addicts said he was at breakfast on the second floor when he saw flames coming from the first floor."
