“Dante’s Inferno isn’t hot enough for you”

“STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Earlier this month, Anthony Morales admitted to slaying a neighbor and her son on a Mariners Harbor street two years ago.

“But the stocky 51-year-old defendant didn’t apologize for their deaths at his sentencing on Wednesday. Instead, Morales presented himself as the victim, claiming the decedents had harassed and tormented ceaselessly over the years, had followed him to a home he owned in Pennsylvania and had ‘come looking for’ him on the day they died.

“State Supreme Court Justice Mario F. Mattei listened patiently to Morales’ rambling seven-minute monologue in his St. George courtroom packed with the victims’ distraught relatives. And when Morales finally sat down, the judge didn’t mince words or hide his disdain.” […]

“You don’t have an ounce of remorse for what you’ve done. You do not have an ounce of human decency. …You have no morality,” the judge continued. “Based on my impression of you, of what you’ve done and what you’ve said, I don’t think Dante’s Inferno has a level deep enough or hot enough for you.” […]    –Frank Donnelly, SiLive, May 30, 2018