North Carolina man sentenced to death for brutal rape, murder of his teenage daughter

A North Carolina man has been sentenced to dying for the brutal rape and homicide of his personal teenage daughter.

A Union County jury sentenced Joshua Lee Burgess, 35, to dying Friday after he was convicted of homicide and different costs for killing his 15-year-old daughter Zaria in 2019, in keeping with the Union County District Lawyer’s Workplace.

Burgess slit Zaria’s throat on Aug. 18, 2019 after sexually and psychologically torturing her for 22 hours at his dwelling in Monroe.

“This was really an particularly heinous, atrocious, and merciless killing of an harmless baby,” the Union County District Lawyer’s Workplace stated in an announcement. “This case was emotionally taxing for everybody concerned. We proceed to grieve with and pray for Zaria’s mom.”

The lady lived together with her organic mom however was visiting her father for the weekend on the time of her killing, in keeping with WBTV.

Burgess walked into the police station and confessed to killing her the identical day he dedicated the unthinkable act. He informed investigators his handle, the place they discovered Zaria’s physique.

“It’s simply evil,” Union County Sheriff Tony Underwood stated. “I imply homicide is homicide, however to kill your personal flesh and blood like this there’s simply no solution to clarify it apart from it’s simply an evil crime.”

Burgess was convicted of 1 rely of first diploma homicide, one rely of statutory rape, three counts of statutory intercourse offense and one rely of first diploma sexual exploitation of a minor.

The jury within the case sentenced Burgess to dying on the homicide cost and an extra minimal of almost 76 years in jail for the opposite costs after about three hours of deliberation.