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Tormented by memories of sexual abuse at the hands of a family friend, and recently finding an image of a young relative in his abusers home, 17-year-old Marco Tulio Flores, snapped.

Jaime Galdamez had sexually abused Flores since he was 9-years-old and on May 24, 2011, Flores went to his home armed with a knife, a dog chain, and a video camera. He tied Galdamez up and questioned him about the sexual abuse he suffered to which Galdamez admitted. He then asked that he be strangled to death as opposed to slashed as “there would be too much blood”. Flores complied.

He went back the next day and set the apartment on fire, but before doing so he removed the computers. Flores then handed himself in to the East Boston Police Station and confessed. Investigators found child pornography on the computers which Flores took from the apartment. They also found chat room conversations in which Galdamzes spoke about abusing Flores. Flores’ lawyer, James Budreau stated “The dam broke. He couldn’t stop himself. He did what he did not out of vigilantism, but a perceived threat to these children.” Flores did not want another child to go through what he went through.

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