An 18-year-old boy, Jose Reyes, is currently undergoing trials in
the US state of Texas for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, Corriann
Cervantes, during a satanic ritual, before gouging her
eyes, disfiguring her body and killing her.
Reyes, and his
accomplice, 16-year-old Victor Alas, allegedly killed Cervantes in a vacant
apartment in southeast Houston in February this year, in a bid to sell their
souls to the devil.
According to Huffington Post, on the
night of the incident, the two boys allegedly engaged in consensual sex with
Cervantes before brutally attacking her.
Reyes, who was 17 at the
time of the crime, faces a life sentence if convicted of capital murder but
would be eligible for parole after 40 years, according to the Houston
Chronicle. If he's convicted of murder, the jury would determine his
punishment.
Prosecutors contend the
two teens were hoping to make a deal with the devil when they disfigured the
girl's body, including carving an upside down crucifix on her stomach.
Assistant District
Attorney John Jordan said:
"Whether
or not the devil was involved, what happened in that apartment was sadistic and
inhumane. He said he had no regrets."
Jordan told jurors
Cervantes and the alleged assailants, who attended school together, went to the
apartment to have sex after a late night of alcohol and marijuana use at a
friend's apartment. He said the scene descended from consensual sex to a brutal
beating with the heavy porcelain lid of a toilet tank.
He said the teens used a
screwdriver to stab Cervantes in the face and torso dozens of times.
During the ritual, the
boys are alleged to have strangled her, carved an inverted crucifix into her
stomach, and gouged her eyes out. Remnants of a toilet lid used to hit her were
found embedded in her skin.
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