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    NJ: GUILTY: Illegal immigrant admits claw-hammer slayings

    TOMS RIVER — An illegal immigrant from Mexico pleaded guilty Friday to murder and kidnapping charges in the brutal claw-hammer killing of two young Stafford boys two years ago.

    With his head hung low, Richard Toledo, 23, entered his guilty pleas before state Superior Court Judge Barbara A. Villano Friday morning.

    Toledo faces 30 years to life in prison for the killing of Karlo Gonzalez, 14, and life without any parole for killing Zabdiel Gonzalez, 7. He also faces up to 30 years in prison for kidnapping the boys' mother, Wanda Gonzalez, at knifepoint.

    Toledo was charged with the Jan. 19, 2006, murders of Karlo and his brother, Zabdiel, in their Middie Lane home in Stafford, where Toledo had rented a room.

    Dressed in a bright red jumpsuit and listening to an interpreter through a set of earphones, Toledo said little more than "yes'" or "no" when questioned by Villano or Ocean County First Assistant Prosecutor Ronald F. DeLigny.

    "Did you use a hammer to strike Karlo multiple times about the head and body causing his death?" DeLigny asked during the proceedings.

    "Yes," Toledo answered through an interpreter.

    A similar question was asked about the killing of 7-year-old Zabdiel, and Toledo's one-word answer was the same, "Yes," he had used a hammer to kill the two boys.

    The killing of Zabdiel is an aggravating factor under state law because the boy was under 14. Toledo faces life in prison without any chance of parole for the crime.

    DeLigny then went through the chain of events in the kidnapping of the boys' mother, Wanda Gonzalez.

    Toledo admitted abducting the young mother at knifepoint after she returned from a trip to the grocery store. Wanda Gonzalez was unaware of her children's murders when Toledo forced her into her minivan and drove her to the Commerce Bank of Route 72 in Stafford.

    There he forced her to withdraw $500 from the ATM, before driving her 40 miles north on the Garden State Parkway, while she was reportedly bound by wire and neckties.

    Toledo stopped at the Monmouth Service Area on the Parkway in Wall to get gas for the minivan. Still unaware her two boys had been murdered by Toledo, Wanda Gonzalez bolted from the vehicle, screaming and yelling for help, according to DeLigny.

    Toledo fled into a nearby wooded area and was arrested about 4:30 a.m. the next day after an extensive manhunt.

    Toledo had once worked with the boys' mother, Wanda, at a cleaning service. After his arrest, the Mexican Consulate got involved in his case because he was facing a possible death sentence, according to testimony in court Friday.

    But the death penalty was abolished in New Jersey last month. The Legislature replaced capital punishment with life in prison with no possibility of parole in cases in which aggravating factors previously would have made the defendant eligible for the death penalty.

    After Gov. Corzine signed the measure, county prosecutors and the Attorney General's Office agreed not to proceed with death-penalty trials against defendants in any of the capital cases that were pending.

    In court Monday, Toledo kept his head down and only looked at the judge once during the proceeding — as she was explaining parole eligibility.

    Defense attorney Cathy Waldor told Villano that Toledo was suffering from depression and asked the judge to help get him treatment.

    Villano said she would make the request to the Ocean County Jail administration.
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    sharlynocean wrote:
    What are they doing in Minnesota? This is such an outrage. Why isn't anyone in authority answering for it. Why doesn't the link work in previous comment?
    2/27/2008 11:27:24 PM
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    Bren4824 wrote:
    Did you all know that it was an illegal who was also responsible for the deaths of the 4 children in that school bus accident in Minnesota last week??? The media is going out of their way to keep this hidden from US citizens!!! MINNEAPOLIS � A woman who authorities say is in the country illegally and using an alias was charged Friday with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide and two lesser charges in a school bus crash that killed four children. A woman who identified herself as Alianiss Nunez Morales, 23, of Minneota, was driving a van that failed to stop at a stop sign Tuesday before hitting a bus carrying 28 students from Lakeview School, Lyon County Attorney Richard Maes said. The accident happened near the small town of Cottonwood, in southwestern Minnesota. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are trying to figure out the woman's true identity. Entire article through link...................... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331989,00.html
    2/24/2008 4:41:17 PM
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    Gunny wrote:
    As George Carlin says, "only in liberal America do we sentence someone to "LIFE", for causing "DEATH". Hello...... Lefties. When will we ever learn that the creeps sneaking into this country, breaking our laws, abusing our healthcare systems and draining our economy do not have to like us. They MUST respect us and our laws. End of message.
    2/12/2008 9:33:22 AM
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    taxpayerfighter wrote:
    So an illegal alien kills two precious American children. Look at the bright side, the Democrats in New Jersey ended the death penalty and apologized for slavery. Anyone who votes for another do nothing, poltically-correct, socialist, tax-loving, liberal, left wing, America-hating, terrorist butt-kissing Democrat should have their head examined. Notice how the U.S. economy is in trouble now that the Democrats have control of both houses of Congress?
    2/9/2008 10:52:46 PM
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    SummorDee wrote:
    And Barack Obama wants to give drivers licenses to these illegal immigrants. Think of what would've happened to the mother of those children had he had that weapon (the car) to use against her as well. I vote that every legal American citizen use their time and gas money to drive ONE illegal immigrant back over the border so the US wouldn't have to spend a dime deporting them and I'll bet you the line would never end. Everyone would be signing up! And if this were to happen...just think of how many jobs would open up to those on the unemployment line and how many others lives' would be saved.
    2/9/2008 10:28:15 PM
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    lovingmother wrote:
    we need to send all the illegal back to their countries
    2/9/2008 9:27:15 PM
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    AnneRN wrote:
    Amen Brother! well said!
    2/9/2008 9:21:59 PM
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    nonewtaxes wrote:
    DEMOCRATS are mostly to blame for these kinds of monsters getting into the country and flourishing once they are here. How many costly programs are available to them because of Socialist Democrats like Corzine, Codey, and Roberts? While guys like Tancredo, Hayworth and Hunter are fighting to seal the border, left-wing loons like Pelosi, Reid, Clinton and Obama want to keep the floodgates of potential Democrat voters open. They are traitors who are willing to sell out the country for votes. If you shut down the borders, companies will hire Americans, end of story.
    2/9/2008 9:03:58 PM
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    AnneRN wrote:
    let this monster stew in his depression for 30 years....counseling....hey, that is one way the state could avoid toll hikes - NO more counseling or college classes or knitting classes, or books, or tv's or medical care or cancer treatments or dental care for the inmates. of course after paying taxes and toll in NJ I can't afford to put my kids thru college or pay a dental bill and many people are dying of cancer because they can't afford treatment - but monsters and scum - sure, we will pay for them to get counseling for their DEPRESSION! are you kidding me!
    2/9/2008 8:16:44 PM
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    AnneRN wrote:
    Is the judge going to get that poor mother counseling too??? WTF! screw that - counseling for this monster???? screw that - let him be sad. who cares?


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    Richard Toledo sentenced to consective life terms for killing 2 Stafford Twp. boys


    (Published: Friday, March 14, 2008
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    1:45 p.m. Update - TOMS RIVER - Richard Toledo, the man who pleaded guilty last month to beating two Stafford Township boys to death with a claw hammer in January 2006, was sentenced this morning to life in prison.

    Toledo will never be released from prison, according to Ocean County First Assistant Prosecutor Ronald F. DeLigny. Superior Court Judge Barbara Ann Villano sentenced Toledo for the murder of 14-year-old Karlo Gonzalez. Toledo must serve 85 percent of that term before he would considered for parole, DeLigny said this afternoon.

    Villano handed down a consecutive life sentence with no eligibility for parole for the murder of 7-year-old Zabdiel Gonzalez. Toledo will also face a consecutive 30-year term for the kidnapping of the boys mother, Wanda Gonzalez, DeLigny said. Toledo must also serve 85 percent of that term before he would be eligible for parole.

    Authorities say that after beating and strangling the boys, Toledo abducted Wanda Gonzalez at knifepoint and forced her to withdraw $500 from a local ATM. Toledo then traveled north on the Garden State Parkway, police said, and stopped at a Monmouth County rest stop, where Gonzalez was able to break free and call police. Toledo was arrested several hours later.

    Toledo had faced the possibility of a death sentence, but it was repealed by the state Legislature in December. Toledo, 26, admitted to striking the boys repeatedly with a hammer, causing their deaths, and to being an illegal Mexican immigrant, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office. Toledo was a boarder in the family's home in the Ocean Acres section of Stafford Township.

    See Saturday's edition of The Press for complete coverage.



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