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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - More than 3 years aft the shocking murders of 18-year-old Yanelly Solorio-Rivera and her 3-week-old daughter, Celine, connected Sept. 24, 2022, her sister and her sister’s fellow were sentenced to situation for their deaths.
In the courtroom, Judge Brian Alvarez sentenced 25-year-old Yarelly Solorio-Rivera to 2 beingness presumption for shooting and sidesplitting the young parent and babe successful their slumber astatine their Fresno home.
Her boyfriend, 29-year-old Martin Arroyo-Morales, was handed down a 22-year situation condemnation for 2 counts of voluntary manslaughter.
However, it was the sisters' begetter who pleaded to the justice that Arroyo-Morales should person the longer sentence.
“He is the 1 blameworthy of each of this," said Marcelino Solorio-Saragoza. “I cognize that you’re trying to bash what’s right. But arsenic a father, I already mislaid 1 daughter, and I bash not privation to suffer different 1 conscionable due to the fact that idiosyncratic got distant with it."
Still, that hopeless plea would fail.
“She volition ne'er beryllium connected parole. She volition dice successful prison," said Fresno County Judge Brian Alvarez.
The 25-year-old Solorio-Rivera had been facing the decease punishment until she came to a plea statement with prosecutors, to alteration her plea from not blameworthy to nary contest.
“Mr. Solorio is going to beryllium losing 2 daughters today. She made a woody with the state, and the tribunal is going to travel done with that. She avoided a imaginable decease penalty," Alvarez said.
Arroyo-Morales, who was identified successful surveillance video adjacent the location successful 2022, besides reached a plea woody that dismissed execution charges earlier helium received 2 11-year sentences spell 2 counts of voluntary manslaughter.
At the clip of their death, authorities said the mates planned to termination Yanelly and her daughter, with the motive being jealousy and sibling rivalry.
Following the hearing, Yarelly’s defense, who spoke connected her behalf, claimed Yanelly had threatened Yarelly's young children, pushing her to perpetrate the horrific crime.
“Yanelly utilized to endanger them, to resistance them connected the field, and Yarelly was precise acrophobic astir the information of her children," said defence lawyer Curtis Sok. “I conscionable privation the nationalist to recognize that my lawsuit is precise remorseful for what happened and she’s not specified an evil, acold killer. This was done retired of emotion for her children — for the information of her children."
