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Mop-slay mom Mexican Immigrant

How can anyone read this article without asking "Is she an IA?"


Teary kid says she'll never forgive mop-slay mom Florencia Vazquez for killing sister

BY William Sherman and Rich Schapiro
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Originally Published:Tuesday, August 17th 2010, 1:26 PM
Updated: Wednesday, August 18th 2010, 1:12 AM

Florencia Vasquez, who was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the death of her daughter Alejandra back in 2008, stands at her sentencing hearing.


The heartbroken teenage sister of an 11-year-old girl beaten to death by their mom with a mop handle lashed out Tuesday as the woman was tossed in prison.

"To her, we were all animals," Florencia Vazquez's 15-year-old daughter, Imelda, wrote in Spanish in a letter read by a court interpreter.

"My mother deserves to get a lot of time in jail for all the harm she has done. ... I will never forgive her for what she did to us."

Brave Imelda stood solemnly beside the translator as her emotional letter was read inside Brooklyn Supreme Court.

Her eyes welled with tears when Justice Neil Firetog sentenced her mother to 16 years behind bars for brutally killing her sister Alejandra. Vazquez also was hit with a concurrent sentence of seven years for assault.

Vazquez pleaded guilty Aug. 2 to savaging her schoolgirl daughter with the handle in October 2008 - and leaving her to die on her bed.

She struck her daughter so hard that the wooden handle shattered in two.

Alejandra's lifeless body was found two days after the attack, when a man who rented a room in the family's East New York apartment spotted the corpse.

Cops said Vazquez, a mother of five, abused Alejandra and Imelda because she despised their father, who was living in Mexico.

A Brooklyn Family Court judge had removed Imelda from the home before her sister was killed.

"She brought us here with lies and told us we'd have a better future here, but they were lies," wrote Imelda, who is in foster care along with her three young siblings.

"I do not want my siblings to suffer the harm that my sister did," she wrote.

After Vazquez was led away in cuffs, her attorney insisted that she's repentant.

"She cries often. She's sorry for what she did," lawyer Andrew Friedman said outside the courtroom. "She can't explain why she did it, only that she did it."

In court, the stone-faced Vazquez appeared defiant.

Asked if she wanted to give a statement, the murderous mom was overheard ripping her daughters.

"I brought them to this country, and this is how they pay me," she was overheard saying to a court interpreter.

Vazquez's boyfriend, Andres Pavon-Balderas, was charged with manslaughter in the gruesome slaying.

He pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide last Friday and is awaiting sentencing on Aug. 30.

Sources said the Mexican immigrant is expected to be sentenced to time served and deported.

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Here's a background article from 2 years ago:


Brooklyn mom beats 11-year-old Alejandra Vazquez to death

BY Erin Durkin and JONATHAN LEMIRE DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Updated Monday, October 27th 2008, 12:35 AM


An abusive Brooklyn mom confessed Sunday to beating her 11-year-old daughter to death with a mop handle and leaving her to die in her own bed, police sources said.

Florencia Vazquez, 36, told detectives she hit her daughter, Alejandra, so hard on the head that the wooden handle shattered in two.

The monster mom took the time to tape the handle back together, but never called for help as the helpless girl lay dying.

"There are some people that don't deserve to be mothers," said neighbor Adam Cartwright, 21. "If you have a heart, if you're a real mother, it's impossible to do something like that to your daughter."

Alejandra was found lifeless in their apartment on Atlantic Ave., police said.

Vazquez, a mother of five, admitted killing her after hours of questioning at the 75th Precinct in East New York, cops said.

She told detectives she "despised everything connected to her ex-husband," who was Alejandra's father, a police source said. The mom was expected to be officially charged late last night.

"Oh, my God; how are you going to do that to your own child?" said neighbor Nancy Irizarry, 47. "How are you going to beat her to death like that?"

Vazquez was previously accused of abusing an older daughter, who was handed over to a foster home. It was unclear if the city Administration for Children's Services could have done more to prevent the latest abuse.

Vazquez left Alejandra and her older sister behind in Mexico with her then-husband when she moved to the United States earlier this decade, officials said.

The oldest daughter, now 14, joined her mother in New York last year and soon fell victim to her abuse, a law enforcement source said.

After an NYPD domestic incident report was filed, ACS moved the girl to a foster family in January, police sources said.

Alejandra arrived last month, and told a teenage friend in the building that she was being beaten by her family members.

Vazquez and her boyfriend, who fathered two of her other three children, first claimed that Alejandra suffered the bruises in a street fight with other teens.

She later admitted beating the girl Thursday and leaving her whimpering child to suffer in her bedroom. It was unclear when Alejandra died.

The couple called 911 only when a man who rented a room in their Atlantic Ave. apartment saw the girl laying motionless in bed, sources said.

Vazquez's three other children - ages 6, 3, and 1 - were taken from the home to Kings County Hospital for observation, officials said. They were not injured.

Vazquez's boyfriend, who was not immediately identified, was being questioned at the 75th Precinct and could also face criminal charges, a police source said.With Mike Jaccarino and Oren Yaniv

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Another Background Article

11-Year-Old Brooklyn Girl, Beaten to Death, Was All but Invisible Until She Died

By LESLIE KAUFMAN and KAREN ZRAICK
Published: October 27, 2008

Alejandra Vasquez, the 11-year-old beaten to death, allegedly by her mother with a mop handle, came to Brooklyn from Mexico about a month ago but was hidden — never enrolled in school, and unseen by child-welfare officials who visited her family’s apartment, even as she suffered repeated abuse, medical records and interviews showed.

Alejandra was unknown to the authorities until her body was discovered on Sunday morning, but her story in some ways echoes that of her older sister, Imelda, 14, who has been in foster care since January.

Imelda also came from Mexico after years away from her mother and did not regularly attend school here, records show; she told child-welfare officials that her mother frequently beat her with toys and a belt, and, in May, asked never to see her again.

The medical examiner ruled Alejandra’s death a homicide by blunt force trauma, and found evidence in an autopsy of ongoing beatings. “There were recent blunt-impact injuries to the head, torso and extremitiesâ€

This board has so many routinely one sided posts with cases of criminal acts by illegal aliens that when I started reading I thought here is another one. However I have changed my mind on reading the lucid comment by the Mexican illegal alien teenager. Things are not necessarily better here the conditions in Mexico include lower average income but also lower living costs. What could seem a small amount of money can mean the difference that flips which place is better for someone to live. Then with the violent dysfunctional household on top the teenager is clearly lucid.

"I brought them to this country, and this is how they pay me," she was overheard saying to a court interpreter.

Sicko mother. Its too bad that American taxpayers pay the bill for animals like her to receive a bed and 3 meals a day for their stay in our prisons. I wonder if she will get a plant to hang in her cell, and be able to participate in bingo, dancing and movie nights. Oh, I forgot, thats just for illegals who havent killed anyone yet.