WHITE PLAINS -- Sex offender Robert DeRosario was found guilty of murder and kidnapping yesterday in the strangulation of a 12-year-old boy who disappeared nearly seven years ago from their Nodine Hill neighborhood in Yonkers. The 42-year-old DeRosario, the only suspect ever pursued once the body of Orlandito Rosario-Maldonado was discovered, lowered his eyes and leaned on the defense table but otherwise showed no emotion as the jury forewoman announced the verdict after less than four hours of deliberations. DeRosario, already serving a 10-year prison sentence from 2000 for sexually abusing a dozen teenage boys, now faces an additional 25 years to life in prison when Westchester County Judge Barbara Zambelli sentences him Nov. 15.
Posted by Editor at September 30, 2005 07:31 AM