{"id":2623,"date":"2010-10-01T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T14:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2010-10-01T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T14:01:44","slug":"bahamian-serial-killer-sentenced-to-life-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/bahamian-serial-killer-sentenced-to-life-in-prison","title":{"rendered":"Bahamian Serial Killer Sentenced To Life in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadistic serial killer Cordell Farrington yesterday apologized to his victims&#8217; families before a judge handed down four life sentences for the brutal 2003 deaths of Junior Reme, Mackinson Colas; Desmond Rolle and Deangelo McKenzie in Grand Bahama.<\/p>\n<p>The boys&#8217; disappearance over a period of five months remained a mystery until Farrington walked into a police station in October 2003 and confessed, telling police he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t take it anymore&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution accepted pleas to the reduced charge of manslaughter in the boys&#8217; deaths last week because Farrington was suffering from a severe personality disorder at the time of the crimes. Farrington was already serving a life sentence for the death of his live-in partner Jamal Robins, whom he bludgeoned in his sleep, when he pleaded guilty to the murders of the boys.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Neil Brathwaite read Farrington&#8217;s confession\u00a0 statements into the record. The statements detailed how a cunning Farrington lured his trusting victims before killing them and storing their remains. Farrington had sex with three of his victims before he killed them, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p>The details of the vicious deaths proved too much for the victims&#8217; families and Senior Justice Jon Isaacs ordered police to remove them from the courtroom following several outbursts.<\/p>\n<p>Before passing sentence, Justice Isaacs told Farrington his actions were not those of someone who ought to be readmitted to society.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Source: Nassau Guardian article by ARTESIA DAVIS<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadistic Bahamian serial killer Cordell Farrington was given four life sentences for the brutal murders of four little boys in Grand Bahama back in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32,81,51],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-courts","tag-grand-bahama","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}