Corriann Cervantes: Second Killer Convicted In Brutal ‘Satanic’ Death Of 15-Year-Old

Corriann Cervantes was only 15-years-old when she was lured to an apartment and horrifically executed by two teenage boys intent on “selling their souls to the devil,” Click2Houston reports.

And while her young killers were able to escape the death penalty due to their ages, Jose Reyes and Victor Alias would not escape two separate juries.

The crime happened in February, 2014. By December of that year, Reyes had been found guilty of capital murder. Now Alias has received the same fate with both teens getting automatic life sentences.

According to court documents, the wounds inflicted on Corriann Cervantes were significant and included Reyes beating her on the head with an ashtray as she tried to escape; Alias strangling her with a belt; one or both boys beating her with a toilet water tank lid; one or both attackers puncturing her face “multiple times” with a screwdriver; and the teens “gouging her eyes” after she’d bitten one of the boys in self defense.

“She was a precious part of our family, loved by many. Her cousins loved her. We miss her every day and always will,” said Corriann’s aunt, Roseanne Harding, last Friday when the verdict was read. “We’re happy with the verdict today. Very, very happy. The trials have been hard on our family. The two separate trials have taken a toll emotionally and physically.”

Corriann’s father, Cory Cervantes, was pleased with the verdict as well.

“I feel justice was done for my daughter, that she got her justice served and now she can rest in peace,” he said.

Victor Alias maintained his innocence through the whole trial, up to and including the verdict, but that didn’t cut it with the jury or prosecutor John Jordan.

“It doesn’t matter what they say, it’s what 12 jurors say. I’m not surprised that someone who could commit such a heinous act would deny it,” he said. “This jury spoke for our community that they held both defendants, although they were 17 and 16, accountable for the most horrific acts that could be imagined on a 15-year-old innocent girl.”

While there weren’t any dissenters willing to speak to the media about this particular case, there have been some in the recent past to speak out against trying criminals like Reyes and Alias as adults given one was 17 and the other 16, respectively, at the time of the crime.

In an op-ed for CNN, Robert Schwartz stated plainly that kids “should never be tried as adults,” adding that it wasn’t weak to use the juvenile system in spite of the fact that records are expunged after age 21 and most juvenile offenders are automatically turned out into the general population.

But what do you think, readers? Is it immoral to try teens as adults no matter the crime? And given that’s what happened here, was justice served for Corriann Cervantes? Sound off in the comments section.

[Image of Corriann Cervantes family via Click2Houston, linked above]