i am not sorry
for something i didn't do
and i am not sorry for the things
i did do
without you being present yes ma'am i
understand y'all
thank you
but i will say
i'm sorry for your loss
19 years i've been at this job i've seen
human beings killed at the hands of
others in every way imaginable
you name it i've seen it shooting
stabbings
drownings suffocating blown apart by
cars and dui manslaughter cases horrible
things
this is the worst case i have
ever seen as far as the facts again
um i
um when they fire
with a person from fire department when
he testified and when he said that he
retrieved the body
of ronibia o'neal from the home
and all he could do was stop it took
every
ounce i had not to start sobbing too
because there is no way any person
with any feeling could have witnessed or
seen the photos of what occurred that
night
and not be haunted for the rest of your
life
i know i will be for the rest of my life
i'll be haunted
by what i saw as far as the evidence and
just the abject
cruelty of it all the abject cruelty
and i you know i i i was aware because i
reviewed a lot of the discovery ahead of
time as you well know
did a lot of the camera inspection of a
lot of documents
and i was aware there was some evidence
at least
that when you needed to recover from
your gunshot wound
that neither your parents nor your aisha
miss robinson would let you come recover
at their home i don't know if it's true
or not
i'm just i okay i'm not going to get
into a dispute i just
i just mentioned there was some evidence
referencing that in the records
and all i can think about because i know
i knew that this baron was not with you
romantically at the time
and i knew that she just out of the
goodness of her heart
let you come stay with her and
it is beyond tragic that that critical
decision ended in so much
harder for her and for her children
it is unspeakable cruel
what happened as a result of that one
decision
um the way that miss baron died
was horrific and that 911
truly all of it i you heard
and everyone who's heard that 9-1-1 call
heard
a death scream if anybody ever wants to
know what it sounds like before a human
being
dies knowing that their death is
imminent that's exactly what it is
that was a death scream
we don't see if it's true
what happened to little ranidia and to
little ronnie but i'm going to focus on
renivia
because she was special and you could
tell miss baron had done
everything she could to create a
beautiful home for her family
i noticed that the renivia's bedroom
before you set it on fire you can tell
she tried so hard to make her feel like
a princess
she did kenyatta did everything she
could and i noticed too
in the kitchen on the refrigerator she
put up magnets
that said faith love family
hope and then you know what else
happened in that refrigerator during
that night it got
splattered with blood all over it due to
what happened
little ronidya she couldn't scream
she couldn't run away and she witnessed
what you did to her mother
as far as shooting her mother in the arm
with the gunshot she knew
and the horror that that child suffered
and she already had a life where she was
born with challenges
regarding her physical and her mental
disabilities
but the pain and suffering that she
suffered that night at your hands
unspeakable absolutely unspeakable
and at the moment that first time you
struck her with that hatchet
and little ronnie testified that he all
he could see was tears
coming out of his sister's face at that
moment
that child knew she knew
she was being betrayed in the cruelest
most tragic and sorrowful way that a
child could ever be betrayed she was
being betrayed by her
parent the one person that should be
there
to protect their children and love them
and keep them from harm
and that's what the last thing that
child felt before she
passed on from this earth was your utter
cruel betrayal to her
and i read somewhere and i don't know if
it's true or not i have no idea
but i read somewhere that souls pick
their lives and that they know exactly
how difficult their lives are going to
be
before they enter into this world and i
don't know if that's true or not
but if it is ronivia o'neil is one of
the bravest
souls i have ever come across in my
54 years on this planet one of the
bravest
ever ever because she suffered
so traumatically