SC - Cristina Pangalangan, 13, special needs, died in hot car, Colleton County, Aug 2019 *Arrests*

[passionflower]

i wanna say the caption to what i posted was different before i posted it. someone must've changed it. it said something REALLY weird and foreshadow-y and now i cant remember what it was. my apologies to anyone who is confused.

was this stated to be in the evening? Light in back no one in pool to catch her?

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The victim’s mother, 53-year-old Rita Pangalangan of Walterboro, and her boyfriend, 45-year-old Larry Eugene King, formerly of Ruffin, were found guilty of murder Friday by a Colleton County General Sessions Court jury. Cristina Pangalangan, whose cerebral palsy rendered her non-verbal and mostly immobile, died of hyperthermia after she was placed in the backseat of her mother’s Volkswagen Jetta and left there for nearly six hours.

Rita Pangalangan and King also were convicted of inflicting great bodily injury on a child. Pangalangan was sentenced to 37 years in prison and King to 32 years.

“Cristina couldn’t scream, and she couldn’t open the car door for herself,” Stone said. “She died because the adults she depended on to keep her safe were too interested in doing drugs and having sex while Cristina literally baked to death.”

Couple who left cerebral palsy victim locked in car guilty in child’s death

Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor Duffie Stone has secured convictions against a Colleton County couple who were in the midst of a multi-day methamphetamine binge when they killed a disabled 13-year-old by locking her in a sweltering car.

scsolicitor14.org

 

[IDK]

The victim’s mother, 53-year-old Rita Pangalangan of Walterboro, and her boyfriend, 45-year-old Larry Eugene King, formerly of Ruffin, were found guilty of murder Friday by a Colleton County General Sessions Court jury. Cristina Pangalangan, whose cerebral palsy rendered her non-verbal and mostly immobile, died of hyperthermia after she was placed in the backseat of her mother’s Volkswagen Jetta and left there for nearly six hours.

Rita Pangalangan and King also were convicted of inflicting great bodily injury on a child. Pangalangan was sentenced to 37 years in prison and King to 32 years.

“Cristina couldn’t scream, and she couldn’t open the car door for herself,” Stone said. “She died because the adults she depended on to keep her safe were too interested in doing drugs and having sex while Cristina literally baked to death.”

Couple who left cerebral palsy victim locked in car guilty in child’s death

Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor Duffie Stone has secured convictions against a Colleton County couple who were in the midst of a multi-day methamphetamine binge when they killed a disabled 13-year-old by locking her in a sweltering car.

scsolicitor14.org

I’m glad to read there is some small measure of justice for little Cristina. What a horrifying end for an innocent child who already had so many challenges in her life. RIP Cristina.

Editing to add: to the prosecution team// well done and thank you.

 

[lightofmine99]

Watched a YouTube video on this that was released very recently.

IMO it is very apparent that this woman has probably struggled with drugs for a very long time. Some people don't age well naturally but she has the face and voice of someone who has done so - hard. I also have an inkling that she's never been that great of a mother to any of her children. That begs the question - why such extreme denial from the daughters and other people? How did she inspire this level of devotion? Makes zero sense.

Not one person, aside from maybe the former babysitter, was there to represent Christina. It was all a Rita lovefest.

MOO.

 

[Cryptic]

Rita’s lawyer tried to check the judge for reading these letters out loud the way he’s doing it. I’m guessing Attorney Phillips picked up on the hint of mockery that I’m also perceiving. Judge shut him down!

Thinking that might be grounds for an appeal of the sentence. The judge is supposed to be fair in his review of the facts supporting either a lenient or increased sentence.

But... if the judge was mocking the defendant while reviewing the evidence- and starts the mocking before he has even finished reviewing it all, one could argue that he was not capable of making an unbiased decision regarding the length of the sentence.

Though I support the judge's sentence, I would also support an appellate Court ordering a resentencing with a different judge. In the end, if judges enforce decorum, they need to give it themselves.