Ubernerd
01-20-2008, 03:22 PM
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Two US teenagers have been accused of using moves copied from the Mortal Kombat video game to beat to death a younger half-sister.
Lamar Roberts, 17, and Heather Trujillo, 16, have been charged as adults over the killing of Trujillo’s seven-year-old half-sister Zoe Garcia.
Colorado police allege the teens were baby-sitting Garcia on December 6 while her mother was at work.
The girl lost consciousness and stopped breathing after the teens hit, kicked and body-slammed her, imitating moves used in the video game, police claim.
Trujillo and Roberts tried to revive the girl by putting her under running water and attempting CPR before they called her mother and paramedics, but she died in hospital.
A post-mortem examination showed she had a broken wrist, more than 20 bruises, swelling of the brain, and bleeding in her neck muscles and under her spine.
Police said Roberts claimed to have been downstairs, while the sisters wrestled upstairs.
But a witness quoted in court documents said Roberts told her he had kicked the girl.
The witness told police that Roberts said the seven-year-old had told them to stop wrestling.
When the witness asked why they didn’t stop, he responded: “I don’t know; I was drunk.”
Trujillo and Roberts face one count each of felony child abuse causing death, state prosecutor Robert Miller said in court documents released today.
The teenagers could be sentenced to 48 years in jail if convicted.
The anti-video game politicians will love this one...
Two US teenagers have been accused of using moves copied from the Mortal Kombat video game to beat to death a younger half-sister.
Lamar Roberts, 17, and Heather Trujillo, 16, have been charged as adults over the killing of Trujillo’s seven-year-old half-sister Zoe Garcia.
Colorado police allege the teens were baby-sitting Garcia on December 6 while her mother was at work.
The girl lost consciousness and stopped breathing after the teens hit, kicked and body-slammed her, imitating moves used in the video game, police claim.
Trujillo and Roberts tried to revive the girl by putting her under running water and attempting CPR before they called her mother and paramedics, but she died in hospital.
A post-mortem examination showed she had a broken wrist, more than 20 bruises, swelling of the brain, and bleeding in her neck muscles and under her spine.
Police said Roberts claimed to have been downstairs, while the sisters wrestled upstairs.
But a witness quoted in court documents said Roberts told her he had kicked the girl.
The witness told police that Roberts said the seven-year-old had told them to stop wrestling.
When the witness asked why they didn’t stop, he responded: “I don’t know; I was drunk.”
Trujillo and Roberts face one count each of felony child abuse causing death, state prosecutor Robert Miller said in court documents released today.
The teenagers could be sentenced to 48 years in jail if convicted.
The anti-video game politicians will love this one...