Father of a 15-year-old New York girl He was brutally killed The 2016 MS-13 attack speaks out against the plea deal given to the gang leader who organized the killing of her and six others that federal prosecutors obtained just days before President Biden leaves office.
“He or anyone involved in killing someone should not get a plea deal,” Robert Mickens, Mickens' father, told Fox News on Friday. “This is another huge mistake by our current President Biden, but I'm not shocked. It's a slap in the face to my family and the families of others, who have to live in grief for the rest of our lives knowing that this is the devil being given a plea deal.”
One of his daughter's suspected killers, 28-year-old Jairo Saenz, took a last-minute deal that spared him the death penalty and life in prison under the orders of Biden's outgoing attorney general, Merrick Garland.
Days later, additional gang members received similar deals in another extortion case involving nine murder victims.
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Nessa and Robert Mickens pose in an undated family photo. At the age of 15, Nessa was killed by MS-13 gang members in a brutal attack using machetes and baseball bats. Her father has spoken out against the plea deal for the suspected ringleader, who admitted to killing her and six others but avoided the death penalty and life imprisonment. (Courtesy of Robert Mickens)
It is a slap in the face to my family and the families of others, who have to live with grief for the rest of our lives knowing that this diabolical person took a plea deal.
Saenz is expected to spend 40 to 60 years behind bars. His brother Alexei separately pleaded guilty to eight murders in exchange for a 70-year prison sentence. Federal prosecutors in New York on Friday announced similar plea deals for three other Long Island MS-13 leaders in connection with nine murders — none of which involve prison or the death penalty.
Chapter Sainz From MS-13, He was known as “The Sailors” to be very violent.
This undated footage released by the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, shows who authorities identify as Jairo Saenz in New York. (U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York via AP)
The other killers were Kevin Torres, who like the Saenz brothers was a leader in the Sailors subgroup, as well as David Sosa Guevara and Victor Lopez Morales, who were involved in the plaintiffs' class called “Hollywood.”
The Saenz brothers would have faced the death penalty under Trump's Justice Department during his first term.
But a spokesman for the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said on Friday that the death penalty had not been authorized in the other three cases.
Illegal immigration and rampant violence helped MS-13 transform Long Island suburbs Towards Republicans in the recent elections, according to some experts and people who live there.
Nessa was a student at Brentwood High School, in Suffolk County, about 45 miles east of New York City. MS-13 gang members, under the direction of co-leader Jairo Saenz, ambushed her and her best friend, 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas, with machetes and a baseball bat as they walked through a neighborhood. The gang brutally murdered them and left their bodies to be found.
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Elizabeth Alvarado, alongside Robert Mickens, whose daughter was killed by MS-13 gang members, during a roundtable discussion on immigration at the Morelli Center for Homeland Security in Bethpage, New York, May 23, 2018. (Sol Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
The sailors would regularly wander around looking for rivals to kill, then lure them or ambush them, according to federal prosecutors.
The massacre became very bad on Long Island during this President Trump In his first term, he personally visited to meet with the families of Cuevas, Mickens and other victims and enlisted then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an effort to get the gang, which he said was using immigration “loopholes” to bring in members, off the streets. To the United States
A federal crackdown at the time led to the deportation of thousands of its members. Saenz and his group were detained Face justiceFormer Attorney General Bill Barr's office later announced he was seeking the death penalty. Trump invited Mickens and Siovas' parents to attend the State of the Union address.
In 2023, Brion Pace, then U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, told a judge that Garland directed him to Stop following death penalty. Pace stepped down on Friday and was succeeded by acting U.S. Attorney Carolyn Pokorny, who is expected to hold the position until Trump's nominee, Joseph Nocella Jr., is confirmed.
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Trump has pledged Not only ending Biden's moratorium on the death penalty, but also expanding the list of crimes that could be punished by death to include child rape, human trafficking, and the murder of American citizens by illegal immigrants. Thirteen federal prisoners were executed during Trump's first term, the largest number under any president in decades, but Biden halted executions after taking office in 2021.
“I'm sure our President Trump will look at this and make the right decision,” Mickens said Friday. “Democrats did not care that my daughter died. They showed no respect in 2018 at the State of the Union address, by not standing when we were honored, and now they are not giving us families the respect we deserve.” “We deserve to give him a plea deal.”
