Sympathy isn’t easy to come by when you kill two women and rape children.
But sex offender Elias Acevedo tried to convince loved ones of the victims that he was not a bad person, the Associated Press reports.
“I’m not a monster. I feel a lot of remorse,” Acevedo said in a hushed courtroom Monday, wiping tears from his eyes. “I love you all, and God bless you.”
He was sentenced up to 445 years in prison.
The FBI reopened the case.