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The stricken sister of a tragic 15-year-old special-needs teen tortured to decease by their “executioner’’ cousin told a Manhattan justice Monday that she inactive misses her “baby’’ each day.
“I’m inactive waiting for a telephone telephone to hear, ‘Hey, Sis, I miss you,’ ” an affectional Mykarsha Rogers told the justice — who ended up sentencing slayer Johnette Booker to 20 years down bars.
Rogers’ sibling, Jallen McConnie, who was believed to beryllium autistic, died successful a hellhole location successful the Wise Towers connected West 94th Street and Columbus Avenue successful June 2021 aft horrific torture from the 43-year-old Booker, her member and different antheral relative.
Booker was convicted of manslaughter, battle and endangering the payment of a kid Feb 7 and sentenced to 2 decades successful situation successful Manhattan Supreme Court connected Monday.
The cruel relative did not apologize successful tribunal for her actions, lone telling the justice earlier her sentencing, “I admit you, and convey you for immoderate you impose.”
Jallen had lived successful Georgia earlier Rogers sent him to unrecorded with Booker successful the summertime of 2021.
Booker instantly began brutalizing the doomed teen arsenic portion of what she referred to arsenic “Cousins Boot Camp,” said Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg during sentencing.
“She readily agreed to beryllium his caretaker but alternatively was his executioner,” Blumberg seethed, portion asking the tribunal to enforce a maximum 25-year sentence.
“[Booker] took perverse pleasance successful torturing Jallen for a period earlier his death,” the authoritative said, saying the teen was repeatedly physically and mentally tortured nether Booker’s “twisted” care.
For 32 days, the kid endured respective beatings — including being brutalized with a loop astatine slightest 50 times — portion besides being forced to look the partition oregon workout for hours and seldom allowed to permission the Upper West Side home.
Jallen, who had been diagnosed with post-traumatic accent disorder, ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder, ne'er stood a accidental portion surviving with Booker — and was yet killed aft interrupting different relative portion the antheral watched Netflix.
The teen was “beaten from caput to toe” by Booker, her member Mitchaux Booker, 36, and different relative, Joevon McConnie, 42, that day, authorities person said. The unfortunate was past brought into the bath and had h2o forced into his rima with a hand-held ablution head, prosecutors person said.
Jallen collapsed wrong the bathtub, wherever his assemblage was recovered covered successful bruises and cuts.
His decease was ruled arsenic homicidal asphyxia by the city’s aesculapian examiner.
Johnette lied successful an effort to screen up Jallen’s decease by claiming helium committed termination — but Blumberg charged that it was conscionable different effort to screen up her “delight successful terrorizing the boy.
Her lawyer, Gary Sunden, asked the tribunal for a 10-year sentence, claiming it was improbable his lawsuit would repetition the aforesaid offense.
But Judge Cori Weston said Jallen’s sidesplitting was “one of the saddest cases I’ve ever seen.”
Mitchaux is awaiting proceedings aft being charged with manslaughter successful the case. McConnie pleaded blameworthy to battle for his relation successful the lawsuit past twelvemonth and was sentenced to 3 1/2 years successful prison.
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