SEP 13, 2023
Emotions ran high as many showed up to the highly anticipated sentencing hearing for Trezell and Jacqueline West.
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“They sit in there and act like parents of the year. No, they’re murderers, they’re murderers,” Rosanna Wills, biological cousin to Orrin and Orson West, said. “They’re animals. Trezell and Jacqueline, y’all animals. Tell us where the babies are, no deal, no nothing.”
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“We have to relive this every time we come to this courtroom, every time this is a reliving, the mom, the dad, this is hurtful stuff, and people need to think about if it was your children. Including the judge or whoever is behind whatever. They need to think if this was your kids and you would feel the same, we feel the same way we feel,” said Keisha Stevenson, a family friend of the biological family.
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“We don’t sleep without thinking about it, we’re waiting for justice […] we’re not leaving, we’re going to be here every day,”
Rosanna Wills said. “Every time they have court, we’re here. No matter what, we’re here. That’s applying pressure, our presence is applying pressure.”
Those close to the biological family said the sentencing still won’t bring them closure, but finding out where Orrin and Orson will.