publish time

18/10/2015

author name Arab Times

publish time

18/10/2015

author name Arab Times
Sarah Ferguson and Joseph Irwin stand in front of Judge Bill M. Virkler during a hearing on Oct 16, in New Hartford, NY. Bruce Leonard and his wife Deborah Leonard have been charged with fatally beating their 19-year-old son inside a church, while Ferguson and Irwin are two of four fellow church members who have been charged with assault in an attack that also left the young man’s brother severely injured. (AP) Sarah Ferguson and Joseph Irwin stand in front of Judge Bill M. Virkler during a hearing on Oct 16, in New Hartford, NY. Bruce Leonard and his wife Deborah Leonard have been charged with fatally beating their 19-year-old son inside a church, while Ferguson and Irwin are two of four fellow church members who have been charged with assault in an attack that also left the young man’s brother severely injured. (AP)

BUFFALO, New York, Oct 17, (AP): A 14-year-old has pleaded guilty to killing a 13-year-old boy whose family had immigrated to the US to escape the war in Iraq.

Jean Sanchez pleaded guilty Friday in Erie County Court in Buffalo, New York, to seconddegree murder in the slaying of Ameer Al-Shammari in May 2014. Sanchez was 13 when Ameer was killed. He was charged as an adult, but the maximum sentence he faces because of his age is nine years to life in prison.

Prosecutors say Ameer was trying to get his stolen cellphone back when Sanchez knocked him down, tied him up with his own shoelaces, sodomized him and strangled him with the string from Ameer’s hooded sweatshirt.