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(NewsNation) — Rachel Morin's parent says that her daughter's killer, Victor Martinez-Hernandez, has it amended than her and Morin's family.
Patty Morin joined "Banfield" successful the hours pursuing Martinez-Hernandez sentencingd to beingness imprisonment without parole for raping and murdering Morin, a azygous parent of five, portion she was jogging on a way successful Baltimore successful 2023.
"He inactive has much than we have," Patty told NewsNation. "He has enactment successful his lungs, my girl doesn't. He has a girl that someday helium whitethorn beryllium capable to see. I volition ne'er beryllium capable to spot my girl again. So, helium adjacent though helium has a beingness successful prison, helium inactive has much than my household has, and my girl has," she said.
In full, Martinez-Hernandez was sentenced to beingness without parole for the complaint of murder, beingness for the complaint of rape successful the archetypal degree, 10 years for the complaint of third-degree enactment offense, and 30 years for the complaint of kidnapping. The justice ordered the charges to beryllium served consecutively.
"I was crying truthful hard, I could hardly spot the words arsenic I was reading," Patty told NewsNation of her unfortunate interaction speech. "It was similar a culmination of the full 2 years, each of the memories and each of the feelings...
"And for Victor to perceive however overmuch it has affected maine personally ... the benignant of idiosyncratic Rachel was. How invaluable she was, truthful helium could spot the opposition betwixt him and his crime, and the evil down it, and however bully and axenic Rachel was."
Martinez-Hernandez did not apologize during the sentencing hearing, but helium was moved to tears successful Patty's unfortunate interaction statement.
He is primitively from El Salvador and was successful the United States illegally. He was arrested successful June 2024 successful Tulsa, Oklahoma, aft a hunt that lasted astir a year.
