Two Riverside teen girls were sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for killing a woman so they could steal her car and go to Knott’s Berry Farm. At sentencing, the judge referred to the two Riverside teen girls as “child monsters.”
In August, the two Riverside County teens, Dayana Cordova, 18, and Anna Salinas, 17, were found guilty of first-degree murder, carjacking and other related charges for killing Angelina Arias and taking her car to go to Knott’s Berry Farm. On Friday, Dayana Cordova was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole and Salinas was sentenced to 59 years and four months to life in prison.
The Knott’s Berry Farm Murder all started in October 2007 when Angelina Arias offered to give the two teen girls a ride home from the restaurant where she worked. Along the way, Cordova and Salinas shot Arias in the head twice and pushed her out of the car with Arias’ 9 month old daughter still in it. After driving around with the infant child, the two teen girls eventually left the child on someone’s front porch in Perris, California.
At sentencing, Riverside Superior Court Judge F. Paul Dickerson III sentenced “child monsters” Cordova and Salinas to the maximum possible sentence citing that the “horrendous nature” of the crime outweighed the age of the two teen girls.
Source: Mercury News
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