Example #653545643 of why women should never be allowed to choose their own partners.
A Nicaraguan judge found Orlando Tercero guilty of femicide in the death of Binghamton University student Haley Anderson on Friday afternoon.
The judge deliberated for about an hour and a half prior to delivering her verdict. Before she did, she denounced violence against women and advocated for equal rights between men and women.
“[Anderson] tried to maintain autonomy over herself,” the judge said, as translated by Broome County’s court interpreter, Tony Colon, at Broome County District Attorney Steve Cornwell’s office in Binghamton.
The date for the sentencing will be negotiated between U.S. and Nicaraguan authorities. He is facing a possible sentence of 30 years in a Nicaraguan prison.
Orlando Tercero.
Tercero, 23, was found guilty of strangling Anderson, a 22-year-old nursing student, some time March 8, 2018 at his apartment on Oak Street in Binghamton. The two had been in an “on-and-off” relationship for about a year, according to testimony, but Anderson didn’t share his feelings when he sought a more serious relationship.
“There was some ease to the heartache and a little bit of conclusion,” Haley’s father, Gordon Anderson. “I mean it’s not over, and there will always be an emptiness that’s there, but it was nice to see that Nicaragua did a really professional, bang up job to get the job done.”
Tercero still faces a second-degree murder charge in Broome County, but Nicaragua’s government has declined extraditing him back to the U.S.
Haley Anderson.