The father of a 15-year-old New York girl killed in a brutal MS-13 attack in 2016 has been sentenced to six men, including the leaders of the gang that orchestrated her murder, federal prosecutors secured in just days. He opposes the plea deal. before President Biden leaves office.
Micken's father, Robert Mickens, told Fox News on Friday that “nobody should be given a plea deal for him or anyone involved in his murder.” “This is another big mistake made by current President Biden, but I'm not shocked. It's a slap in the face to my family and other families who will have to live with the grief for the rest of their lives knowing this.” Plea bargains are given to those who are. ”
Jairo Saenz, 28, one of the suspects in his daughter's murder, received a last-minute deal that exempts him from both the death penalty and life in prison under an order from outgoing Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland. .
Days later, more gang members received similar deals in another extortion case involving nine murder victims.
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Nysa and Robert Mickens pose for an undated family photo. Nisa was 15 years old when she was murdered by members of the MS-13 gang in a brutal attack using machetes and baseball bats. Her father spoke out against a plea deal for the suspected gang leader, who avoided both the death penalty and life in prison despite admitting to killing her and six others. (Courtesy of Robert Mickens)
This is a slap in the face to my family and other families who will have to live with the grief for the rest of their lives knowing that this diabolical individual will take a plea deal.
Saenz faces a prison term of 40 to 60 years. Separately, his brother Alexi pleaded guilty to eight counts of redemption murder or 70 years in prison. And federal prosecutors in New York on Friday announced similar plea deals for three more Long Island MS-13 leaders in connection with nine murders, which do not include imprisonment or the death penalty. Not yet.
Saenz's chapter of MS-13, known as the “Sailors,” is notoriously violent.
This undated mugshot released by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York shows who authorities have identified as Jairo Saenz in New York. (U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, via Associated Press)
Other killers included Kevin Torres, who, like the Saenz brothers, was a leader of the Sailors' faction, and David Sosa-Guevara and Victor López-Morales, who were involved in a branch prosecutor called “Hollywood.”
The Saenz brothers would have faced the death penalty under the Justice Department during President Trump's first term.
However, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York said Friday that the death penalty had never been awarded in the other three cases.
Illegal immigration and rampant violence by MS-13 have swayed Long Island's suburbs toward Republicans in recent elections, according to some experts and people who live there.
Nisa was a student at Brentwood High School in Suffolk County, about 45 miles east of New York City. MS-13 gang members, under the direction of co-leader Jairo Saenz, ambushed her and her best friend, Kayla Cuevas, 16, as they were walking through the neighborhood with machetes and baseball bats. The gang brutally murdered them and left their bodies until they were discovered.
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Donald Trump shakes hands with Elizabeth Alvarado, along with Robert Mickens, whose daughter was killed by members of the MS-13 gang, during a roundtable on immigration at the Morely Homeland Security Center in Bethpage, New York, May 23, 2018. President of the United States. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Federal prosecutors say the sailors regularly drove around looking for rivals to kill, luring them or ambushing them.
The massacre on Long Island got so bad that President Trump made in-person visits during his first term to meet with the families of Cuevas, Mickens and other victims, and then-Attorney General Jeff to rid the city of gangs. Sessions was asked for help. He said it uses immigration “loopholes” to bring members to the United States.
Thousands of members were deported due to federal oppression at the time. Saenz and his group were detained face justiceand former Attorney General Bill Barr's office later announced it was seeking the death penalty. President Trump invited Mickens and Seuvas' parents to attend the State of the Union address.
In 2023, then-U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace told a judge that Garland instructed him to: stop pursuing Death penalty. Mr. Peace resigned on Friday and was replaced by Acting U.S. Attorney Carolyn Pokorny, who is expected to hold the position until Mr. Trump's nominee, Joseph Nocera Jr., is confirmed.
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Trump swore In addition to ending Biden's moratorium on the death penalty, it also seeks to expand the list of crimes that can be punishable by the death penalty, including child rape, human trafficking, and the murder of an American citizen by an illegal immigrant. Thirteen federal inmates were executed during Trump's first term, the most under any president in decades, but Biden suspended executions after taking office in 2021.
“I am confident that our President Trump will consider this matter and make the right decision,” Mickens said Friday. “Democrats didn't care that my daughter died. They didn't show any respect at the 2018 State of the Union address by not standing when we were being honored. And now they don't give our family the respect they deserve.''We have the right to give him a plea deal.'' ”
