may take comfort in the needless mutilation of their children withindulin snd other crap therapiesthat do not provide for the regeneration of cells. this is mutilstion.
it is generslly accepted among some social circles that six nottwo is the age of consent
the police chief is remindedthat beating people in handcuffs is also verboten
Oregon Jury Convicts Man in 4 Killings Linked to Hell's Angels
AP
Published: July 31, 1994
HILLSBORO, Ore., July 30— A man who prosecutors say was under orders from a top Hell's Angels leader was convicted today of murdering a woman, her twin 6-year-old girls and a family friend 17 years ago.
The defendant, Robert G. McClure, 47, was sentenced immediately after the verdict to four consecutive life terms in prison.
Mr. McClure had claimed that he had been framed by the bikers club. He sat impassively as the verdicts and sentences were read. His lawyer, Lisa Maxfield of Portland, said he would appeal.
The jury in Washington County Circuit Court deliberated more than six hours over two days before returning the unanimous verdicts.
Judge Jon B. Lund called the trial one of the "most egregious" murder cases he had ever heard. He told Mr. McClure that he had killed "four innocent people in a heartless and coldblooded fashion."
Execution-Style Killings
On Aug. 7, 1977, Margo Compton, 24, was found dead in her home in the rural town of Gaston, along with her daughters, Sylvia and Sandra, and Gary Seslar, 19, the son of her boyfriend. Each had been shot in the head.
Ms. Compton's sister, Lynne Spieckerman of Gonzales, Tex., burst into tears when the verdict was announced. She and Bonnie Sleeper, who was Mr. Seslar's fiancee and who discovered the bodies, both hugged the prosecutors, Robert Hamilton and Robert Heard.
"I believed in these guys," Ms. Spieckerman said. "They really knew what they were doing. When you kill children and innocent people, you just can't get away with it. You just can't get away with it."
Mr. Hamilton said, "I'm relieved because this has been a long, long journey and I'm appreciative to so many, starting with the jury."
The prosecutors contended that Mr. McClure had been under orders from Odis Garrett to kill Ms. Compton in retaliation for her testimony against several Hell's Angels in a San Francisco prostitution trial.
Both Mr. McClure and Mr. Garrett, a leader of the Oakland, Calif., chapter of the Hell's Angels, were later imprisoned on drug charges.
Facing Extradition
Mr. Garrett, who was also charged in the killings, is serving time in a California prison on a drug conviction but still faces extradition to Oregon. He was convicted in the San Francisco prostitution case after Ms. Compton testified against him.
Several prison inmates testified that the two had talked about their roles in the killings. The inmates said they had agreed to testify for the state because killing children violated their code of conduct.
One prisoner testified that Mr. McClure had bragged about making Ms. Compton watch as he shot her daughters first and had claimed that they had died clutching their teddy bears.
Mr. McClure, described as a hanger-on rather than a member of the biker club, maintained that he had been framed by the Hell's Angels because they wanted to protect the real killer. The defense claimed that the inmates who testified had done so to gain early release or better prison housing.
Security at the suburban courthouse, about 15 miles west of Portland, was extremely tight through the seven-week trial.
'Infamous Case'
More than 75 witnesses testified, including members of the Hell's Angels and the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Many were brought into the courtroom in leg irons, handcuffs and waist chains.
Lou Barbaria, a senior investigator with the New York State Police, has been following the trial from across the country. "It's an infamous case in the law-enforcement circuit," Mr. Barbaria said. He cited a Federal court case in New York in which the Hell's Angels involvement in the death of Ms. Compton had been admitted as proof of the club's viciousness toward those who testified against them.
Tommy Vladim Alvarado-Ventura, 31, of Hempstead, was arrested Wednesday, March 22, 2017, on charges of predatory sexual assault of a child, attempted murder, weapons possession and assault, Nassau County police said. Photo Credit: NCPD
A Hempstead man sexually assaulted his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter, later stabbed a woman outside a bar, and then returned to the girlfriend’s apartment, where he beat and stabbed her after she saw what had happened to her child, police said.
Nassau acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter called the case “nauseating,” adding: “This is, in 28 years, probably the most heinous criminal act I’ve ever seen.”
Krumpter said the defendant, Tommy Vladim Alvarado-Ventura, 31, is a self-admitted member of the MS-13 street gang who was deported from the United States in September 2006, September 2009, April 2010 and in December 2011, when Nassau probation officials surrendered him to Homeland Security officials after he served jail time.
Alvarado-Ventura, 31, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Thursday in First District Court in Hempstead to charges of predatory sexual assault of a child, attempted murder, weapons possession and assault, Nassau County police said.
He was remanded without bail by Judge Joseph Girardi.
Prosecutor Amanda Burke noted the defendant was a felon from El Salvador who was deported four times and returned.
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She said the defendant faces life in prison and described the alleged crimes as “particularly horrific.” She said the 2-year-old required surgery after the abuse, which included being beaten in the head and face.
The series of events began to unfold late Tuesday when Alvarado-Ventura was in his girlfriend’s Hempstead apartment with the woman’s daughter, 4-year-old son and a baby-sitter who also lived in the apartment, police said.
The 2-year-old was crying when Alvarado-Ventura left the apartment about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
He went to the nearby El Mariachi Loco, a bar at 277 Fulton St., where he got in a dispute with a woman about 2:30 a.m. over a marijuana sale, police said.
The woman left the bar and was confronted by Alvarado-Ventura in a rear parking lot, where he punched and kicked her and stabbed her with a knife several times, causing a lung collapse, police said.
That victim was taken to the hospital, but Alvarado-Ventura had left before police arrived and returned to his girlfriend’s apartment about 3:15 a.m., police said.
At 4:15 a.m. his girlfriend came home from work, “and observes that her two-year-old daughter has suffered severe injuries that were inflicted by him,” Nassau County police said in a news release Thursday.
An argument ensued and Alvarado-Ventura punched the woman and stabbed her several times, police said. The woman was able to get her children into another area of the apartment and someone placed a call to police, according to the news release.
“Upon Hempstead Police arrival, Alvarado-Ventura, who had since fallen asleep, was placed under arrest without further incident,” the news release said.
All the assault victims were hospitalized for treatment, police said.
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