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Ecuadoran court convicts Luis Guaman in 2011 slayings of Brockton mother and child
Source: boston.com
CUENCA, Ecuador — A court here today convicted Luis Guaman of the savage beating deaths of a young mother and her 2-year-old son whose bodies were discovered in a trash bin in Brockton in February 2011.
The verdict by the Third Criminal Tribunal of Azuay in the slayings of Maria Avelina Palaguachi and her son, Brian, came in the second day of the unusual trial, which was held over the objections of Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz, who wanted to extradite Guaman, a 41-year-old roofer, and try him in the United States.
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