A jury Friday spared the life of the man accused of beating to death his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter and then dumping her in a trash bin. Instead, the jury sentenced Marc Anthony Colon to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the 2006 slaying of Crystal Figueroa, also known as Jane "Cordova" Doe.
His co-defendant and the girl's mother, Gladys Perez, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 years...
Prosecutors said Colon has a long history of beating women and children going back more than a decade. When he was 17, he regularly beat his then-girlfriend, Lalli said. At 21, he choked his 14-year-old sister and struck her so hard he ruptured her eardrum, he said. Colon was in and out of jail and was a fugitive on parole from California when he killed Crystal.
