08-11-2014, 06:28 PM
(08-11-2014, 06:06 PM)Duchess Wrote: LC felt the same way. She insisted time & again that those people cannot be rehabilitated.
Gaeta faces a life sentence if convicted. LE upped the murder charge to first degree; apparently he confessed and confirmed that he was the only person involved.
Snip:
Kitsap County prosecutors filed court papers Monday afternoon, detailing probable cause to hold Gabriel Zebediah Gaeta, 17, on one count of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree rape.
In a probable-cause document, a detective wrote that Gaeta had been linked to the slaying of Jenise Wright through a match of his DNA to DNA found on bloody clothing recovered near Jenise’s body.
During an interview with investigators on Saturday, a highly distraught Gaeta “clearly nodded yes” when he was asked if he was the only one involved in Jenise’s death, the detective wrote.
An autopsy showed blunt-force trauma to Jenise’s head, as well as evidence of strangulation by ligature and sexual assault.
In the court papers, the murder allegation included the aggravating circumstances of concealing the commission of a crime and sexual motivation. The murder and rape allegations also listed the aggravating circumstance of a particularly vulnerable victim.
A judge found probable cause to hold Gaeta at a court hearing Monday afternoon. Bail has been set at $1 million.
(Jim) Wright said the teen had been to their house “many, many times” and was a friend of their older children.
Wright had even taken the teen under his wing, and taught him how to chop firewood to make extra money.
The teen’s mother had also been to their home, he said.
Story: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014...-as-adult/
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Jenise's parents were at the hearing today.
I wonder if Gaeta had been molesting Jenise prior to the day he killed her, given that it sounds like he was around the family a fair deal and Jenise was often unsupervised in their shared neighborhood.
The Wrights are petitioning to get their 12 and 8 year-olds out of CPS custody and returned home.