A 22-year-old Maine man who hoped to get community service after he suffocated, burned, then dumped the body of his 14-year-old Christian girlfriend at a Brooklyn beach last year because she refused to get an abortion, received a 25 years to life prison sentence in New York City on Monday.
Court papers cited by the New York Post said the man, Christian Ferdinand, confessed in January 2013 to the gruesome killing of his underage girlfriend, Shaniesha Forbes, and had hoped to get sentenced to community service for it.
“Do you think I can get some kind of community service?” Ferdinand reportedly asked officers shortly after he confessed, according to court files. After deliberating the evidence against him on Monday, however, a Brooklyn jury took just an hour to pronounce Ferdinand guilty and that he should spend the rest of his life in prison.
Ferdinand noted in court documents that Forbes had told him she was pregnant in a text but refused to have an abortion due to her mother’s religion.
Forbes’ grandmother, Daisy Smith, told The Christian Post Tuesday that an abortion would never be supported by their family because they are staunch Pentecostals.
“We are in the church and we don’t do those things. The whole family is Christian. Her mother is Christian, everybody is,” said Smith, who was also in court for Ferdinand’s sentencing Monday.
Ferdinand, however, had no plans to become a father because of Forbes’ religion and he shot back a warning text: “My n—a, are you serious? Kill that s–t.”
After that tense exchange, court documents say Ferdinand got enraged at Forbes when she refused to stop talking about the pregnancy while they were lying down on a couch at his cousin’s home. He used a leather pillow to suffocate her.
He then stuffed her corpse in a suitcase after dousing it with Axe body spray and setting her on fire. He later dumped Forbes’ charred body in Gerritsen Bay, Brooklyn…Read More
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