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CHICAGO - Christopher Valdez’s aunt and loved ones said they are certain the 4-year-old boy is in a “better place” in the sky with God and playing with angels in heaven.
But after sentencing Christopher’s killer to 75 years in prison Friday, a Cook County judge noted the little boy would still be among the living had he not endured a hellish beating at the hands of his mother’s lover.
“I’m not a philosophical person. I’m not a religious person. I don’t really like that term, ‘better,’” Judge Stanley Sacks said.
“Maybe he’s in a better place.... But he [Christopher] could have been here.”
Sacks told 36-year-old Cesar Ruiz he had earned every day of his prison term by torturing the slight child on Thanksgiving 2011 and the day after. That Friday was the day Christopher died; Ruiz killed him on the boy’s fourth birthday: Nov. 25, 2011.
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