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    Man who mom burnt alive for raping her daughter, 13, said these foul 3 words before turning to ash

    By Erin Rose Humphrey,

    5 hours ago

    A tragic mom was handed a jail sentence after she burnt her 13-year-old daughter's rapist alive after he was released from prison. when he said an abominable three words to taunt her .

    María del Carmen García's daughter Verónica was just 13 years old when she was raped at knifepoint by her neighbor Antonio Cosme in 1998 in Spain. The monster was sentenced to nine years in prison for the crime but in June 2005 he was on day release when he approached María at a bus stop near her home outside of Alicante to taunt her.

    Cosme reportedly taunted his victim's mother, asking "how's your daughter," and made his way to a local bar the family frequented.

    María, overwhelmed by rage, fear, and hysteria, went to a nearby petrol station and purchased a container of fuel.

    She then went to the bar where Cosme was, doused him with gasoline, and set him on fire. Cosme suffered burns over 90% of his body and died in the hospital days later.

    María was found wandering the port that evening and confessed. She claimed she only intended to scare or seriously hurt him, making him understand what he had put her daughter through.

    Initially sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison for the killing, María's sentence was later reduced to five-and-a-half years on appeal. Her case drew widespread sympathy, and there was a significant effort to keep her out of prison. Petitions garnered thousands of signatures, medical records showed she had been experiencing severe depression and anxiety, and numerous appeals were made. A request was even made for her to be included in Spain's Easter reprieve list.

    In 2011, after serving one year and 10 days in prison, a court agreed to suspend her sentence pending an application for an official pardon, citing "special circumstances" and her lack of a previous criminal record, along with her insanity plea at the time of the offense.

    However, in 2013, María returned to prison after the regional high court of Alicante rejected a plea by her lawyer to order a stay on her imprisonment following the Spanish government's denial of her partial pardon request. In 2017, María was granted permission to leave the prison between the hours of 11 am and 7 pm before her release in 2018.

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