And now sicko daddy wants to take parenting classes in prison, and counsel other fathers on the care of special needs children? Oh for God's sake, get me my barf bag....
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Dead child’s father sentenced to life in prisonGirlfriend serving 20 years for manslaughter, abuse
By Mara Stine
The Gresham Outlook, Apr 26, 2011, Updated Apr 26, 2011
The father of a 5-year-old Gresham girl who was tortured, beaten and abused to death will spend at least 25 years in prison.
Christopher Andrew “Andy” Rosillo, 24, was sentenced by Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Michael McShane on Tuesday, April 26, to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 25 years.
Rosillo pleaded guilty to murder by abuse on March 16, two days after his longtime girlfriend, Guadalupe “Lupé” Quintero, 24, pleaded guilty to manslaughter for her role in the killing of Oleander “Andie” Rosillo. Quintero, who was crowned Miss Teen Clackamas County in 2006, is serving a 20-year sentence.
Rosillo showed no remorse during his sentencing hearing but said he was “sorry to all of the people I have hurt during this tragic event, especially sorry for my daughter who has passed on. She never deserved any of this.”
He also apologized to the dead girl’s two younger half-siblings, who are now in foster care, “for the pain and sorrow that you have to go through life without a mother and a father.”
The two younger children are the biological children of Rosillo and Quintero, who was not Oleander’s biological mother.
One of the worst child abuse cases
Investigators called the girl’s murder the worst case of child abuse and neglect they’d investigated. Court documents show the girl was abused and tortured for more than three years before she died on April 13, 2010. Police found the girl unconscious and not breathing when they responded to a report of an injured child in an apartment at 418 S.E. 169th Ave., just north of Southeast Stark Street.
At the time of her death, Oleander weighed 28 pounds. She was covered from head to toe with bruises, abrasions and wounds in various stages of healing. She also had multiple broken ribs, some of which had been broken repeatedly, a repeatedly broken thighbone and scarring on some of her internal organs.
Rosillo admitted to breaking the girl’s femur, saying he later made a point of kicking her there, knowing it would hurt more. He told police he was the sole disciplinarian, admitting to beating the girl with a belt, back scratcher and broom handle.
As punishment, he forced the girl to do wall squats and kneel on hard surfaces, such as tile or linoleum flooring, for up to an hour. He’d make her kneel on a brick or uncooked rice on the floor, or stand on her toes in the corner. Eventually she’d crumble from the pain and he’d beat her for that.
Meanwhile, his girlfriend also beat the girl and “made it easy” for the man to kill his daughter, police and court officials said. She also told people that if Rosillo ever touched her biological children, she’d leave him.
Court documents report the girl was only 2 when her father and his girlfriend began abusing her. This was just a short time after Oleander, who had been living with a loving foster family that wanted to adopt her in Washington, went to live with her biological father and his girlfriend.
Impact felt nationwide
Deputy District Attorney Nathan Vasquez – in a move usually reserved for crime victims or their loved ones – made a rare victim impact statement to the court on behalf of the community.
He’s received phone calls, emails and letters from across the nation from people in disbelief at the agony Oleander endured. Grand jurors and forensic scientists who worked on the case appeared in court for the sentencing.
“Everyone who has dealt with this case has suffered,” Vasquez said.
By all accounts, Oleander was a sweet, beautiful, innocent child – despite being born with medical problems that she later overcame. She was no more trouble than any other healthy child, detectives said.
Her father’s relatives still struggle to understand how their loved one could have committed such a senseless, tragic crime, Vasquez said. “The pain they are feeling is amplified by many factors,” Vasquez said. “She was failed by family members. She was failed by many people in the sense that her abuse was apparent. It was understood, and no one spoke up on her behalf.”
Only last week, Vasquez learned how traumatized Oleander’s now 4-year-old half-sister and nearly 2-year-old half-brother are by the loss of their big sister.
With time and therapy, he hopes they can come to terms with how their parents could have committed such horrific crimes, Vasquez said.
During the hearing, three women related to Oleander’s biological mother encouraged Rosillo to turn to God.
“It’s not too late for you … to turn your life over to him,” said Diane Spence, Oleander’s biological grandmother. “God is holding her in his arms and is wiping all tears from her eyes.”
Before the sentencing hearing ended, Rosillo told the courtroom he would like to counsel fathers on “how hard it is to take care of a child with special needs so they don’t have to end up with a case like mine.”
While incarcerated, he also plans to take parenting classes.
As sheriff’s deputies led him from the courtroom in handcuffs, Rosillo’s mother, Marrian Turner of Sandy, tearfully said, “I love you, mijo.”
And while she loves her son and mourns losing him to prison, minutes later she thanked prosecutor Vasquez for putting him there.
“We wanted justice for little Andie,” she said, crying.
