Man sentenced to death for throwing five-year-old to alligators

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

MIAMI (AFP) — A man who threw a five-year-old girl into a Florida swamp to be devoured by alligators after trying to strangle her mom has been sentenced to death by a Florida court.

"The defendant ... caused this 5-year-old to die, alone in the wilderness, and to be mutilated by monsters of the swamp," Miami-Dade County Judge Leonard Glick said Monday before announcing the sentence to Harrel Franklin Braddy, 58.

"Adults are supposed to protect children from monsters; they are not supposed to be the monsters themselves," he added.

A jury found Braddy guilty of murder and attempted murder in July. He was accused by the mother who survived his attack, the online edition of The Miami Herald reported Tuesday.

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