My first post about Jorelys Rivera can be found here:
Ryan Brunn pleaded guilty yesterday to the brutal murder of 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera, who disappeared last month while playing at a playground down the street. Her remains were later found in a neighborhood dumpster.
Yesterday Brunn stood up and told the court how he lured Jorelys into a vacant apartment to molest her. He goes on to detail about how he then went on to kill her, but I don’t want to go into those details here. Reading them once is heart-wrenching enough, let alone writing about them.
After he discarded Jorelys’ body, Brunn says he then hung out with some friends and smoked meth.
He was sentenced to life in prison without parole, his guilty plea sparing him from the death penalty.
I think it’s really important to report about cases like these. This was the case of a very seemingly normal 20-year-old kid who apparently is sexually attracted to children, and capable of brutal murder. I’m not saying everyone should go around being a paranoid nut bag, but I do think people need to be more aware that these things happen, and that not every criminal looks like you would expect them to.
UPDATE: 1/19 12:45 PM CST
I just read a news article from 11Alive that says Brunn is a suspect in two different child molestation cases – you can read more about it here.
UPDATE: 1/19 7:05 PM CST
Ryan Brunn committed suicide in his jail cell this afternoon – http://www.11alive.com/news/article/223228/3/Ryan-Brunn-dead-hanged-himself-11Alive-source-says
SOURCES:
– http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/ryan-brunn-guilty_n_1212892.html
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