Madera man sentenced for killing former girlfriend

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Scott Allen was sentenced to 30 years to beingness successful situation for murdering Mandy Burriel.

The 44-year-old died astatine the hands of her erstwhile boyfriend, successful December 2023 helium called instrumentality enforcement reporting she fell.

"It wasn't a gaffe and fall; if it was a gaffe and fall, I could recognize 1 people connected her face, but not bruises and marks each implicit her body," said the victim's niece, Alicia Gonzales.

Four days later, Mandy Burriel died successful the hospital.

District lawyer Sally Moreno is hoping Monday's sentencing volition supply immoderate justness to her family.

"Often, they locomotion retired of tribunal reasoning to themselves, yeah, but I inactive don't get my idiosyncratic back. That's the happening that happens, and the strategy tin bash what the strategy tin do. I anticipation that they are capable to instrumentality immoderate solace and find immoderate solution to this," said Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno.

Mandy leaves down 3 daughters, the oldest of whom, Audrey Cross, inactive wishes she could sing with her ma astatine slightest 1 much time.

"My ma and I had a hard relationship, and we had conscionable started making amends. I consciousness similar Scott took everything that we had left. I conscionable don't deliberation it was just for him to determine that it was her time," said Audrey Cross, the victim's daughter.

As home unit period continues, her household wants their memories with Mandy -- and her acquisition -- to shed airy connected this benignant of unsafe dating.

"She defended him truthful overmuch due to the fact that she thought that's what emotion is, and I deliberation that's the saddest part, she died ne'er getting to acquisition existent emotion due to the fact that helium ne'er truly loved her," said Gonzales.

"It's besides important for women to cognize that there's assistance retired there, that you tin marque it connected your own, and that determination are radical who inactive care," said the victim's sister, Karie Van Noy.

"Nobody should person to spell done this, cipher should person to beryllium successful a courtroom, cipher should person to spot those pictures, clasp their mom's manus portion they are saying goodbye," said Cross.

If you are the unfortunate of home abuse, oregon you cognize idiosyncratic who is, determination is assistance disposable 24/7. In Fresno County, telephone the Marjaree Mason Center astatine (559) 233-4357. In each different locations, telephone the National Domestic Violence Hotline astatine (800) 799-7233.

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