Son who dismembered mother gets six months in jail

**voivod** · 01.22.07, 07:28 PM

BUFFALO, New York (AP) -- A teenager who said he killed and slowly dismembered his mother over several days at the urging of a pedophile was sentenced Monday to six months in jail.

Angel Rosa, 16, had pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of Madeline Irene, 46.

Irene's head and hands were found encased in cement in a garbage can at the home of the alleged sexual abuser, 50-year-old Edwin Gimenez, who is a convicted pedophile.

Other body parts were found floating in a nearby river.

Psychiatrists for both the prosecution and the defense determined Rosa was emotionally under Gimenez's control.

Gimenez, Rosa's co-defendant in the death, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for convincing Rosa to kill his mother.

The teen was also sentenced to five years probation.

Rosa has already spent 15 months in jail and will be released to the custody of a psychologist who had examined him while he was in jail, according to Assistant District Attorney Christopher Belling.

"It's been a very, very unusual case from the get-go," Belling said. "I think that justice was served."

Rosa said he felt emotionally out of control when he killed his mother August 18 and dismembered her in their apartment.

The indictment said Gimenez allegedly worked with the teen to dismember and dispose of the body.

Authorities said they believe Gimenez befriended Rosa's family so he could sexually abuse Rosa and a younger boy, and that he convinced Rosa to kill his mother so Gimenez could take the boys to New York City.

**LLFHS** · 01.22.07, 09:47 PM

Did this happen on THIS planet????

**jimmy812** · 01.23.07, 06:05 AM

I think I'm starting to become desensitized to this garbage. I read this and thought "wow yet another horrible, unimaginable story. How can someone do this? Oh well, let me see if anyone wrote anything in the sports' threads."

But seriously, in regards to this story, what an interesting piece. You really gotta give a hand to the police for not losing their head in this kind of case. Sounds like the Buffalo cops are a cut above the rest. Voivod, you'll have to keep me abreast to any follow-up news on this story. I bet the movie rights to this story will cost an arm and a leg, especially if the studios are neck and neck in a bidding war. Either way, I'll be dying to see it.

**ZeoBandit** · 01.23.07, 06:11 AM

It's amazing how someone could do that to their own mother.

**Ain't Talkin' Bout' Love** · 01.23.07, 07:26 AM

I think the death penalty should be issued more liberally. This pedophile should be tortured before being killed. His body is unworthy of proper burial, and should be burned. Maybe I'm being harsh because of the various philosophical and theological questions my statements make, but people like this are simply unforgivable, and should not be shown any mercy whatsoever.

**Viking** · 01.23.07, 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by jimmy812

I think I'm starting to become desensitized to this garbage. I read this and thought "wow yet another horrible, unimaginable story. How can someone do this? Oh well, let me see if anyone wrote anything in the sports' threads."

But seriously, in regards to this story, what an interesting piece. You really gotta give a hand to the police for not losing their head in this kind of case. Sounds like the Buffalo cops are a cut above the rest. Voivod, you'll have to keep me abreast to any follow-up news on this story. I bet the movie rights to this story will cost an arm and a leg, especially if the studios are neck and neck in a bidding war. Either way, I'll be dying to see it.

As they say in the Guinness commercials, "Brilliant!"