BREAKING NEWS: A man who assaulted and murdered his live-in girlfriend's 2 1/2-year-old son at their Los Angeles apartment was sentenced Friday to 50 years to life in state prison.
Superior Court Judge Curtis B. Rappe noted that Ronald Nathaniel Salmond III had been "given chance after chance after chance'' in a string of criminal cases and said he "seems to have a problem controlling his anger.''
The boy had been left in Salmond's care along with his 4-year-old sister by their mother while she was away from the home for an appointment that afternoon. "What you did was very wrong,'' the boy's 11-year-old half-sister, Emiyah, told the defendant during the sentencing hearing in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom. "In my opinion, you should die. And you blamed me -- an innocent, loving, caring, 4-year-old ... for his death.''
Salmond's mother, Christine Gray, said her son "made numerous mistakes, but he would not make this mistake.'' "There is only one reason why Elijah isn't here ... and that reason is sitting right over there ...'' the prosecutor said, pointing across the courtroom to Salmond.
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