SALINAS, Calif. — A jury in Northern California convicted a 20-year-old man of torturing, starving and beating two children whose bodies were found in a storage unit. The jury on Monday found Gonzalo Curiel guilty in the 2015 killings of a 7-year-old boy and his 3-year-old sister. They also convicted him of torturing their older sister in their Salinas apartment, KSBW-TV reported. Curiel was a “sadistic” person who “enjoyed controlling and hurting children,” Monterey County Assistant District Attorney Steve Somers said. He was tried as an adult, but prosecutors were not able to seek the death penalty under California law.

Source: National Post April 24, 2018 20:26 UTC