Wednesday, May 8, 2024 A US-based Ghanaian couple will spend the next 25-years of their lives in prison for second-degree murder in the death of their five-year-old son.
Valerie Owusu, along with her boyfriend,
Emmanuel Addae, both 28 years old and residing in Corona, Queens, New York, had
been convicted in March of depraved indifference murder for the death of King
Owusu.
The verdict was delivered on Wednesday, 1
May, 2024, in court, with the mum Valarie in tears.
Despite expressing love for the child and
pleading for leniency, they were given the maximum sentences by acting State
Supreme Court Justice Steven Pilewski.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A.
Tierney said;
“The jury
has spoken, but unfortunately, that will not bring back this young boy,”
The sentence comes nearly three years
after the two brutally beat and left the boy for dead on Long Island.
According to the Suffolk County District
Attorney’s office, Valerie Owusu and Emmanuel Addae beat the child with “at
least four different instruments” over three days in 2021.
The prosecutors added that neither Owusu,
who is the biological mother of the victim nor Addae called 911 or provide
medical care when his situation deteriorated.
They continued by saying they later sent
the boy to a family member’s house.
The family member later returned home to
find the boy dead.“This little boy was beaten and suffered for days at the
hands of these defendants, one of whom was his own mother, until he,
unfortunately, succumbed to his severe and extensive injuries.
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