This case has disturbed me so much that every time I look at my daughter I think about how much suffering the precious little girl endured! My heart is ripped apart!
I thought that the case in GA where the lil girl was taken, raped and thrown into a trash compactor made me sick to my stomach. This case not only sickens me, but I totally felt horrible a day about this case.
In the name of Cherish, cherish your daughters. We have to protect them and teach them to be wise when we can't always be there. Her mother was aloof, but never wanted this to happen. Be smarter than her. Teach our girls not to be weak deer in the headlights, damsels in distress. We can do better for our girls. In the name of Cherish ❤️.
@@sheryltheisen2332 I actually feel lots of empathy for the mother, she has bipolar and gets paranoid some times and it was this fact that made her let Cherish go with him, I have had mental health issues and sometimes people don’t know the difference between their paranoia and intuition, I have been there.
Yeah we need an inmate that’s in for life and has nothing to lose, maybe one with his own kids who he misses like crazy, this is the sort of man Don Smith needs to meet.
@@Girl-101 He'd be on death row which means he's even more well protected than protective custody. Am I right in assuming that? From what I've seen death row inmates, more than PC and even more than segregated inmates, are more sheltered and more have the opportunity to do their own time.
This has be one of the most emotional trials I've seen. To think of the horrors this sweet little girl endured, as he ripped her apart is unimaginable. My heart is breaking for this family.. 💔 the community and the officer's, fire rescue, detectives, prosecutors and the poor jury will never see the world the same way..😪
Thank you! The sheer amount of people blaming the mother have never been in poverty and desperate apparently. Must be nice not to have to worry about money. I grew up in severe poverty, and we accepted help from strangers many many times. I feel for her so badly, especially since she doesn't have custody of her other children anymore either.
@@Girl-101 i feel for her , i do, but omg so many signs. i mean why didnthe just buy the dress she chose at dollar general? it was the one she wanted, and they were already there? then he tried to have cherish put on high heels??? and sexy clothes??? then he took her alone to mcdonalds? i dont think i could ever be so dumb. i grew up poor and for a while was a poor adult, and NEVER in a gazillioon years would i allow any child to go off with a man. so many warning signs, so many, and mom just kept going....also i have read a lot about this mom, she was a whackadoodle for sure! she is very off.
I hope this teaches moms that are limited in finances , not to trust anyone that offers to spend cash on them. The mom was influenced in spite of the red flags she felt.
I’ve watched this entire trial. What an emotionally torturous hours & hours of a trial. I’m emotionally exhausted!! This poor sweet girl was taken from this world by an evil, hideous, vile person. I can’t call him a man -He’s no Man! 😡 her poor body revealed the evils of what this monster did, but her sweet, bright, soul is up above, I do believe that -I have to believe that! Rest sweet baby, Cherish, rest. 😢 👼 😇❤️😢
She went through the most horrific 😭 pain and torture 💔 she is flying high with the angles pain free just so sad she had to suffer such a horrible death 💔 😢
She was excited, she probably thought that old man was an angel send to provide for them. I feel so sad when she left behind him, cause she was hungry and so does her siblings... dame bastard have no heart!😢
Poor cops how the hell to they control themselves wouldn't you want to make this evil creep suffer . My heart goes out to anyone that was part of this evil evil murder
I’m not blaming the mother, but...I think him putting the rope in the cart and getting the little girl to ask her mother for high heels was him trying to get her to stop him. Or maybe he was testing to see how far he could go. Either way, she failed her child in the worst way possible.
Well im thi king the rope was to tie all of em up and rape all of em then kill em. Im sure. This evil demon isnt a man isnt a human. Hes in solitary confinement safely tucked AWAY from the gen population. The justice system PROTECTS MONSTERS so they don't get hurt. Let him do this in a different country lol. Hed get killed im sure
it looked like a lot of rope. RED FLAG... he was gonna get one of them or all - if he had to. he got lucky for a few hrs. now his eternity is here, enjoy donald smith....hahhaha
Could this be the only case in history whereby the prosecution could have won the case, hands down, without even giving a closing argument? I mean, what can the defense put up on closing? Not a darned thing!
Ah that poor little girl what a deaths having to look in to the face of evel before she died, it makes me want to cry I am welling up ,it's been so hard to listening to this trial,he is showing no remorse why?????? I don't understand.Lets hope he gets what he deserves in prison I know the inmates have children good luck I hope they give him pain and suffering every day for as long as he lives ...
The saddest part of all is that the dp must go through all the appeals processes before he can be executed. The appeals process takes years and the reality is that he will probably die in prison from old age before the state of Florida executes him for his crimes.
This poor child . The pain she went through , horrible . I cannot judge the mom. She will forever judge herself. But other moms need to know the red flags so this don’t happen to their family.
The greatest myth is that these monsters get what’s coming to them when in jail. They don’t ! They are protected and a lot of times the guards use them as snitches.death penalty is to good for him. Eye for an eye neeeds to come back for these sick fuks.
I don’t understand why this judge wasn’t more assertive and have a bit MORE ANGRY at this defendant? Even at the sentencing her monotone voice was with no emotion handed down the sentence- No you did a bad thing, etc 🤔. In the case of Gabriel Fernandez the Judge usually never commented on cases, but he felt he absolutely had to. The case screamed that he make a statement- This case was just as horrific. Just don’t understand 🤔
@@Girl-101 they do but we’ve seen so many cases where the judge speaks to the defendant in a stern way. Also this judge laughed with this monster in other clips so she definitely doesn’t care about professionalism
So many of these witnesses really touched my heart. I hope they can sleep at night without thinking of the poor precious child but I doubt it. The brutality and cruelty is beyond comprehension. I hold Smith is held accountable every day in prison.
Her mother had no business getting to Trust that total stranger, I dont give a dam how much my kids needed clothes or food & I mean that .he preyed on them for sure. Rayne perrywinkle is a poor excuse for a mother....JUS LIKE HALF OF THE WORLD, I FEEL LIKES ITS HER FAULT.
Ohhh trust it is her fault just as much as its his fault if she was watching her kids n kept an eye out on them and trusted her gut instinct abiut him being a creep cherish wouldve been here still its sooo sad she had to pay the price for this sick monster to finally be put to death
She was a single/struggling mother of three whom whom couldn't even afford a dollar store dress for Cherish and also not terribly bright, sometimes we want to believe people are kind and good and as genuine as they seem..It's terrible going through life so jaded that you reject every single person whom is being nice to you by the small chance that person is a raging psychopath. She trusted the wrong stranger. I have been wronged so many time in my life yet wake up every day with the hope that people will be nicer and I try to assume the best. He offered to give her a ride to a store and buy her 3 daughters whatever clothing they wanted as well as food. She wanted to be able to provide and wanted to believe that people are good. Yes, she messed up big time. I get it but come on, this woman lost her baby in the WORST possible way on the planet, she then lost custody of her other 2 daughters whom she is never allowed to see again, she lost her job from severe depression and ptsd from this and will have to live with this burden of guilt until the day she dies..I feel so bad for her because who hasn't trusted a kind stranger before, usually the person actually is kind. This one time though? It was the wrong one. I think the biggest villian of all is our justice system. He was arrested 29 EFFIN TIMES before the night he kidnapped and murdered this little girl. He preyed on the mother's need to provide for her daughters, he took advantage of her being a single parent struggling. She is not very intelligent I can see as well and all of these factors should be considered before you condemn this poor woman who has to torture herself everyday about that one choice to trust a predator whom should have never been released. The system that allowed a 29 offending pedo whom's crimes were all similar to this to be released a 30th time is the real messed up part, our legal system protects pedos, this monster should have never been at that Walmart that day and he was allowed to. Please have a little bit of a heart about her one mistake that tragically killed her baby :( we all make mistakes but she is not the kidnapping/rap*st/murderer here...She didnt free him from jail after his 29 sexual offenses, our system did.
This mom will forever live with the guilt that she was influenced by a stranger and this happened to her daughter. She was too trusting. Or too needy, gullible. Idk.
I fear she's gonna kill herself. Cherish is dead and she lost the custody of the rest of the children. If I remember correctly, they are in another country with some relative, so she doesn't even see them. Not a single glimmer of hope for her in this life. I would kill myself, I just couldn't live anymore. I hope she survives 💔
@@emmisu9724 lol, she doesn´t give a rats about any of her daughters. She was happy getting attention from the media. The mother is as much of a monster as Smith is.
The defense is not putting on a defense at all! Which means...he can use that for an appeal, and possibly a whole new trial! Which will just put everyone through the horror of hearing all this again! And give him the satisfaction! It's more than obvious that he loves every second!
No HE'S PROTECTED in solitary hon. Justice wasnt served. Hes getting what he wants. Safely tucked away in a box. Then hes gonna get a needle in his vein. Hes gonna get high and die. Thats it. Justice isnt served. Theres no pain no NOTHING. Just solitary 3 meals a day etc. All he done to thia baby and this is all he gets? He fufilled his dream he hurt a little girl so his bucket list is done.
@@g.g5060 maybe it is,tho. it's said that being in solitary is the worst. imagine 30 yrs. w/out any contact. he can't 'brag' to anyone,i hope. he seemed to like his self very well..aarrrr
Linda Burger no they opted to waive, which really what can they really say to defend him. They have no defense case to summarize or rebuttal the states findings.
They should have put him in prison for life without parole. . In the video talking to his mom that’s what he feared. . Being in prison. . He even said he’d rather be put to death so he could have a calmer death. . He said in prison he would be scared every day and waiting for a terrible death
They were not putting up a defense because the evidence was so overwhelming. Their only goal was to try to get him life instead of the death penalty. That's why they spoke much more during the penalty phase than the trial. They knew he had no defense.
As a S.A. survivor from childhood, I've not been able to watch this whole trial because it triggers me so bad .... anyone who could do these things to a child is evil and someone should put him in a fire ant colony covered in honey after sandpapering his entire body raw. Ugh. Even that wouldn't be enough suffering. 😢😢
The mother abandoned her 2 children. She could have no deal with what happened to her daughte She gave her 2 children to her sister and she went to Australia
Just saw an interview with Cherish’s Dad, Billy. He was fighting for custody during this time and the court felt that Rayne, who struggled with mental health issues, had three children too many, and was with BF number who knows, yet for whatever reason a judge still felt that little girl was better off with her. Better off to be with a clearly overwhelmed, economically challenged women because why, she was the Mother? She couldn’t afford those kids, put them all in danger with a stranger over a $150 Gift card offer. Money isn’t the answer to happiness but there was a Father willing to have his daughter and relieve some of that pressure. Dads out there fighting for their babies because you know your gut is telling you something, keep fighting and documenting and never quit. Cherish didn’t need to die, her Mother could have still had a relationship with her but could have had the time to better prepare herself while letting Cherish have at least a chance at life with her Dad but because he wanted a DNA test years prior (after not even being told there was a potential child of his born). The courts need to do better and seek what truly is in the best interest of the child and not just assume it’s always the Mother because she says so.
There was accusations of her father being a SO also so that's what was slowing down him ever getting custody. I've no idea how much validity there is to it but I know that was a factor.
I hope he gets just some of what he did to that tiny girl every day that he lives inside of that prison and I further hope he lives for a long time wishing he had never even seen her
Not sticking up for the sick bastard they were defending, but the defense council sucks. No questions, no objections, nothing. I hope he doesn't file for ineffectual council. They could buy him a new trial.
No, he was waiving, he knew he had no defence...he just sat back and enjoyed the reliving of his demented fantasy that came true, he was enjoying listening to what he did...God will look after this monster much better then we can👀😕
Deb Parks I believe God knows our heart completely, there is no way this creep will ask for true forgiveness...if I could place a bet, it would be he is going to hell, directly to hell 😉
I think the mom should be charged with child indangerment i really do bc she new better even admitting she felt off even letting him take her to the dressing room she's not a victim she lead her daughter to jer death at her age she knew better even her judgement told her this but all she seen was free money..... Why couldn't you just go to work i hate being the one but it's the truth she should be introuble also
Δεν ξέρω αν έχει γίνει η εκτέλεση του ακόμα αλλά η αγωνία και ο τρόμος ότι κάποτε θα γίνει και το σκέφτεται κάθε μέρα αυτή είναι η καλύτερη τιμωρία του ΚΤΗΝΟΥΣ
That would be disrespectful to Cherish and her legacy ... it's bad enough we had to hear what happened to her and you want pics and video? Of what exactly?! That's disgusting.
This case has disturbed me so much that every time I look at my daughter I think about how much suffering the precious little girl endured! My heart is ripped apart!
I thought that the case in GA where the lil girl was taken, raped and thrown into a trash compactor made me sick to my stomach. This case not only sickens me, but I totally felt horrible a day about this case.
In the name of Cherish, cherish your daughters. We have to protect them and teach them to be wise when we can't always be there. Her mother was aloof, but never wanted this to happen. Be smarter than her. Teach our girls not to be weak deer in the headlights, damsels in distress. We can do better for our girls. In the name of Cherish ❤️.
@@sheryltheisen2332
I actually feel lots of empathy for the mother, she has bipolar and gets paranoid some times and it was this fact that made her let Cherish go with him, I have had mental health issues and sometimes people don’t know the difference between their paranoia and intuition, I have been there.
@@Girl-101 she should’ve never had children period
@@chrishandsome4267 it’s a little too late for that I think.
This is one of the saddest sickest crimes I have ever heard of.. she was such a beautiful girl
Dear Inmates,
You know what to do.
Definitely, I would love just 2 hours with him ...
I hop they do
If he’s still alive he’s in protective custody sadly. Corporal punishment should be a thing still though
Yeah we need an inmate that’s in for life and has nothing to lose, maybe one with his own kids who he misses like crazy, this is the sort of man Don Smith needs to meet.
@@Girl-101
He'd be on death row which means he's even more well protected than protective custody. Am I right in assuming that? From what I've seen death row inmates, more than PC and even more than segregated inmates, are more sheltered and more have the opportunity to do their own time.
The way he glared at Donald smith during the recording being played you can tell he had rage burning in his soul for that sick bastard.
Only a monster could do this.
This has be one of the most emotional trials I've seen. To think of the horrors this sweet little girl endured, as he ripped her apart is unimaginable. My heart is breaking for this family.. 💔 the community and the officer's, fire rescue, detectives, prosecutors and the poor jury will never see the world the same way..😪
1:05
well done prosecutor 👍👏
Excellent closing. You've done right by this precious little girl😥💔
it as not the mother's fault. he took advantage of a person's volunerability. everything is so sad.
Thank you! The sheer amount of people blaming the mother have never been in poverty and desperate apparently. Must be nice not to have to worry about money.
I grew up in severe poverty, and we accepted help from strangers many many times.
I feel for her so badly, especially since she doesn't have custody of her other children anymore either.
@@chefsusansavage2784 I agree
I can see people are angry with her though but I think she probably feels bad enough.
@@Girl-101 i feel for her , i do, but omg so many signs. i mean why didnthe just buy the dress she chose at dollar general? it was the one she wanted, and they were already there? then he tried to have cherish put on high heels??? and sexy clothes??? then he took her alone to mcdonalds? i dont think i could ever be so dumb. i grew up poor and for a while was a poor adult, and NEVER in a gazillioon years would i allow any child to go off with a man. so many warning signs, so many, and mom just kept going....also i have read a lot about this mom, she was a whackadoodle for sure! she is very off.
Are you for real if the mother took care of her little girl as she should cherish would be alive stop given her credit
I hope this teaches moms that are limited in finances , not to trust anyone that offers to spend cash on them. The mom was influenced in spite of the red flags she felt.
I’ve watched this entire trial. What an emotionally torturous hours & hours of a trial. I’m emotionally exhausted!! This poor sweet girl was taken from this world by an evil, hideous, vile person. I can’t call him a man -He’s no Man! 😡 her poor body revealed the evils of what this monster did, but her sweet, bright, soul is up above, I do believe that -I have to believe that! Rest sweet baby, Cherish, rest. 😢 👼 😇❤️😢
..lisa - no doubt ~*
She went through the most horrific 😭 pain and torture 💔 she is flying high with the angles pain free just so sad she had to suffer such a horrible death 💔 😢
The medical examiners testimony was truly horrific wasn't it?
She was excited, she probably thought that old man was an angel send to provide for them. I feel so sad when she left behind him, cause she was hungry and so does her siblings... dame bastard have no heart!😢
I doubt she was so stupid she actually thought he was an angel, who do you think you are a mindreader?
@@victormalyar9200 stfu
Cherish would have died terrified, physically hurting and hungry, it’s so sad and I don’t know why this wasn’t a bigger story.
i know, to her it was like WOW, new clothes. new shoes, AND mcdonalds! wow wee! and then this????
Poor cops how the hell to they control themselves wouldn't you want to make this evil creep suffer . My heart goes out to anyone that was part of this evil evil murder
I’m not blaming the mother, but...I think him putting the rope in the cart and getting the little girl to ask her mother for high heels was him trying to get her to stop him. Or maybe he was testing to see how far he could go. Either way, she failed her child in the worst way possible.
Well im thi king the rope was to tie all of em up and rape all of em then kill em. Im sure. This evil demon isnt a man isnt a human. Hes in solitary confinement safely tucked AWAY from the gen population. The justice system PROTECTS MONSTERS so they don't get hurt. Let him do this in a different country lol. Hed get killed im sure
I agree😡
it looked like a lot of rope. RED FLAG...
he was gonna get one of them or all - if he had to.
he got lucky for a few hrs. now his eternity is here,
enjoy donald smith....hahhaha
Are you for fu!!!ing real ..you make me feel sick...
@@skibee420 j
Could this be the only case in history whereby the prosecution could have won the case, hands down, without even giving a closing argument? I mean, what can the defense put up on closing? Not a darned thing!
That’s why they waived their closing
Ah that poor little girl what a deaths having to look in to the face of evel before she died, it makes me want to cry I am welling up ,it's been so hard to listening to this trial,he is showing no remorse why?????? I don't understand.Lets hope he gets what he deserves in prison I know the inmates have children good luck I hope they give him pain and suffering every day for as long as he lives ...
Why? Its called a sociopath
@@DG-rq1lk
Do Sociopaths have a conscience?
🤢, hearing the closing arguments on how he did things to her, what he made her do.
I can't believe it OMG
He looks and sounds harmless as well but these predators have these soft voices on purpose.
The saddest part of all is that the dp must go through all the appeals processes before he can be executed. The appeals process takes years and the reality is that he will probably die in prison from old age before the state of Florida executes him for his crimes.
im sure his defense lawyers wish they could run off rn they probably feel disgusted about donald smith
This poor child . The pain she went through , horrible . I cannot judge the mom. She will forever judge herself. But other moms need to know the red flags so this don’t happen to their family.
That is close to the devil that I ever seen
General population would be worse than the death penalty.
Totally agree. He knows it too - he'd be a marked man in general population.
The greatest myth is that these monsters get what’s coming to them when in jail. They don’t ! They are protected and a lot of times the guards use them as snitches.death penalty is to good for him. Eye for an eye neeeds to come back for these sick fuks.
Excellent prosecutor!
So sad absolutely heartbreaking. Beautiful cherish i wish this never happened 2u. That man gives me the creeps he is revolting xx
This man is evil .. not even 1 thought in his mind said let this child GO,, all that pain n hurt he forced into her ..LORD monster among us....
My heart is aching. So brutal 💔
What was said at 23:00 I literally wanted to get sick. 🤢
Well done prosecutor! You helped getting this little girl justice ⚖️
I don’t understand why this judge wasn’t more assertive and have a bit MORE ANGRY at this defendant? Even at the sentencing her monotone voice was with no emotion handed down the sentence- No you did a bad thing, etc 🤔. In the case of Gabriel Fernandez the Judge usually never commented on cases, but he felt he absolutely had to. The case screamed that he make a statement- This case was just as horrific. Just don’t understand 🤔
I think they have to remain professional and they see this sort of thing all the time.
@@Girl-101 they do but we’ve seen so many cases where the judge speaks to the defendant in a stern way. Also this judge laughed with this monster in other clips so she definitely doesn’t care about professionalism
@@Littlekitten_
Maybe they get complacent? Who knows, but imagine dealing with guys like Smith on a frequent basis 😱😱
The judge was being professional.
Is it me or does the volume needs to improve?
It's the acoustics in the courtroom.
So many of these witnesses really touched my heart. I hope they can sleep at night without thinking of the poor precious child but I doubt it. The brutality and cruelty is beyond comprehension. I hold Smith is held accountable every day in prison.
Her mother had no business getting to Trust that total stranger, I dont give a dam how much my kids needed clothes or food & I mean that .he preyed on them for sure. Rayne perrywinkle is a poor excuse for a mother....JUS LIKE HALF OF THE WORLD, I FEEL LIKES ITS HER FAULT.
Grace and Mercy
Ohhh trust it is her fault just as much as its his fault if she was watching her kids n kept an eye out on them and trusted her gut instinct abiut him being a creep cherish wouldve been here still its sooo sad she had to pay the price for this sick monster to finally be put to death
love exactly
She was a single/struggling mother of three whom whom couldn't even afford a dollar store dress for Cherish and also not terribly bright, sometimes we want to believe people are kind and good and as genuine as they seem..It's terrible going through life so jaded that you reject every single person whom is being nice to you by the small chance that person is a raging psychopath. She trusted the wrong stranger. I have been wronged so many time in my life yet wake up every day with the hope that people will be nicer and I try to assume the best. He offered to give her a ride to a store and buy her 3 daughters whatever clothing they wanted as well as food. She wanted to be able to provide and wanted to believe that people are good. Yes, she messed up big time. I get it but come on, this woman lost her baby in the WORST possible way on the planet, she then lost custody of her other 2 daughters whom she is never allowed to see again, she lost her job from severe depression and ptsd from this and will have to live with this burden of guilt until the day she dies..I feel so bad for her because who hasn't trusted a kind stranger before, usually the person actually is kind. This one time though? It was the wrong one. I think the biggest villian of all is our justice system. He was arrested 29 EFFIN TIMES before the night he kidnapped and murdered this little girl. He preyed on the mother's need to provide for her daughters, he took advantage of her being a single parent struggling. She is not very intelligent I can see as well and all of these factors should be considered before you condemn this poor woman who has to torture herself everyday about that one choice to trust a predator whom should have never been released. The system that allowed a 29 offending pedo whom's crimes were all similar to this to be released a 30th time is the real messed up part, our legal system protects pedos, this monster should have never been at that Walmart that day and he was allowed to. Please have a little bit of a heart about her one mistake that tragically killed her baby :( we all make mistakes but she is not the kidnapping/rap*st/murderer here...She didnt free him from jail after his 29 sexual offenses, our system did.
@@sierraparker3211
She wasn’t a single mother, she had a boyfriend, I wish she had have left the kids at home with him.
This mom will forever live with the guilt that she was influenced by a stranger and this happened to her daughter. She was too trusting. Or too needy, gullible. Idk.
I fear she's gonna kill herself. Cherish is dead and she lost the custody of the rest of the children. If I remember correctly, they are in another country with some relative, so she doesn't even see them. Not a single glimmer of hope for her in this life. I would kill myself, I just couldn't live anymore. I hope she survives 💔
@@emmisu9724 lol, she doesn´t give a rats about any of her daughters. She was happy getting attention from the media. The mother is as much of a monster as Smith is.
So disturbing
Yes, I came across this case around 5AM this morning and it is now 8:45 pm and I'm still disturbed. 😢
The defense is not putting on a defense at all! Which means...he can use that for an appeal, and possibly a whole new trial! Which will just put everyone through the horror of hearing all this again! And give him the satisfaction! It's more than obvious that he loves every second!
He can't do anything he waived all his rights ive studied this case since day 1 he's such a pos wish we still had the chair f the needle 😒
Poor Cherish!! 😭
Don't worry when he goes to prison they're going to be waiting for him in there Lord have pity on him
No HE'S PROTECTED in solitary hon. Justice wasnt served. Hes getting what he wants. Safely tucked away in a box. Then hes gonna get a needle in his vein. Hes gonna get high and die. Thats it. Justice isnt served. Theres no pain no NOTHING. Just solitary 3 meals a day etc. All he done to thia baby and this is all he gets? He fufilled his dream he hurt a little girl so his bucket list is done.
@@g.g5060 maybe it is,tho. it's said that being in solitary is the worst.
imagine 30 yrs. w/out any contact. he can't 'brag' to anyone,i hope.
he seemed to like his self very well..aarrrr
Absolutely horrific. God rest this beautiful angels soul.
exceptional job done by the state attorneys
I hope in prison, Donald Smith is currently experiencing the extent of the mercy and gentleness he bestowed upon Cherish Periwinkle.
I'd be in tears during that 3 minute
did the defense give a closing argument? I'm not finding one anywhere.
Linda Burger no they opted to waive, which really what can they really say to defend him. They have no defense case to summarize or rebuttal the states findings.
I've been searching for 10 min. Can someone tell me what the defense was for him? I usually use the closing as my cliff notes for the trial.
THE LIES MAY RUN BUT THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS CATCH UP
I wonder how his defense team and attorneys feel defending him
Jesus said “I will repay”.
They should have put him in prison for life without parole. . In the video talking to his mom that’s what he feared. . Being in prison. . He even said he’d rather be put to death so he could have a calmer death. . He said in prison he would be scared every day and waiting for a terrible death
Can someone tell me what the defense was for him? I usually use the defense closing as my cliff notes for the trial.
No defence was put forwards. Even Smith knew there was nothing he could say.
They were not putting up a defense because the evidence was so overwhelming. Their only goal was to try to get him life instead of the death penalty. That's why they spoke much more during the penalty phase than the trial. They knew he had no defense.
They didn't even try to defend him from the death penalty.
As a S.A. survivor from childhood, I've not been able to watch this whole trial because it triggers me so bad .... anyone who could do these things to a child is evil and someone should put him in a fire ant colony covered in honey after sandpapering his entire body raw. Ugh. Even that wouldn't be enough suffering. 😢😢
Any update on a shank?
This is the hardest thing I’ve ever heard. Monster. Prayers for everyone involved 😱
OMG what I would give to be his cellmate for a while
This lawyer was so good!
Whoever the cameraman is, needs fired
The audio isn't the best either.
See something say something
The mother abandoned her 2 children. She could have no deal with what happened to her daughte She gave her 2 children to her sister and she went to Australia
Just saw an interview with Cherish’s Dad, Billy. He was fighting for custody during this time and the court felt that Rayne, who struggled with mental health issues, had three children too many, and was with BF number who knows, yet for whatever reason a judge still felt that little girl was better off with her. Better off to be with a clearly overwhelmed, economically challenged women because why, she was the Mother? She couldn’t afford those kids, put them all in danger with a stranger over a $150 Gift card offer. Money isn’t the answer to happiness but there was a Father willing to have his daughter and relieve some of that pressure. Dads out there fighting for their babies because you know your gut is telling you something, keep fighting and documenting and never quit. Cherish didn’t need to die, her Mother could have still had a relationship with her but could have had the time to better prepare herself while letting Cherish have at least a chance at life with her Dad but because he wanted a DNA test years prior (after not even being told there was a potential child of his born). The courts need to do better and seek what truly is in the best interest of the child and not just assume it’s always the Mother because she says so.
There was accusations of her father being a SO also so that's what was slowing down him ever getting custody. I've no idea how much validity there is to it but I know that was a factor.
Bad guy looks like a ghost
Glad premeditation was proven, in that way he would get a more accurate sentence!
How many mores? ????
Was wondering the same thing!
I hope he gets just some of what he did to that tiny girl every day that he lives inside of that prison and I further hope he lives for a long time wishing he had never even seen her
Not sticking up for the sick bastard they were defending, but the defense council sucks. No questions, no objections, nothing. I hope he doesn't file for ineffectual council. They could buy him a new trial.
Actually, they did numerous times if you watch the whole trial which can be found on youtube in several parts.
You also have to consider the overwhelming evidence against him. The DNA on her and the CCTV footage really says it all.
No, he was waiving, he knew he had no defence...he just sat back and enjoyed the reliving of his demented fantasy that came true, he was enjoying listening to what he did...God will look after this monster much better then we can👀😕
Debbyrose Yep, you’re right. He can ask Jesus to be his savior and he’ll go to heaven with Cherish! How messed up is that?
Deb Parks I believe God knows our heart completely, there is no way this creep will ask for true forgiveness...if I could place a bet, it would be he is going to hell, directly to hell 😉
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AFC is a great site. I follow him.
I think the mom should be charged with child indangerment i really do bc she new better even admitting she felt off even letting him take her to the dressing room she's not a victim she lead her daughter to jer death at her age she knew better even her judgement told her this but all she seen was free money..... Why couldn't you just go to work i hate being the one but it's the truth she should be introuble also
Omg!!!
Boy he shur looks like what he is goshlee
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Δεν ξέρω αν έχει γίνει η εκτέλεση του ακόμα αλλά η αγωνία και ο τρόμος ότι κάποτε θα γίνει και το σκέφτεται κάθε μέρα αυτή είναι η καλύτερη τιμωρία του ΚΤΗΝΟΥΣ
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Frustrating that we can't see pics And videos
I think we’d be sick 😢
That would be disrespectful to Cherish and her legacy ... it's bad enough we had to hear what happened to her and you want pics and video? Of what exactly?! That's disgusting.
You won't be able to un-see it. Listening these closing argument from this attorney and his description of what he did to her is enough.
@@VincentWilliams007 I agree
Why would you want to see pictures of a dead child? Im sure if this attack happened to your loved ones you wouldn’t be frustrated .
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She 💯 allowed this to happen
Who?
I’m sorry but her mother was totally negligent. Selfish to gain from a
Man she never knew.