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Hall County Murder and Rape of 4 Year Old, Defendant Pleads Guilty

By Conaway and Strickler

The gainesvilletimes.com website reported in an account on March 13, 2008 that Cornelio Zamites will plead guilty to the rape and homicide in Georgia of a 4 year old girl. Zamites agreed in order to avoid the death penalty and the district attorney agreed on this plea in order to secure a conviction. Through an interpreter Esmeralda?s father Jesus Lopez Rios told Judge Kathlene Gosselin, ?I live blaming myself sometimes because my daughter needed me as a father and I could not help her.? The girl?s killer, Cornelio Rivera Zamites, 28, pleaded guilty Thursday to murder, rape, kidnapping with bodily injury and other offenses and was sentenced by Gosselin to life without the possibility of parole, plus three consecutive life sentences, plus 20 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Defense Blog on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).