Sentenced: Girl, 12, Walked A Mile To Help 4YO Sister Despite Her Own Stab Wounds

[Sugar Cookie]

Florida police discovered a child stabbed to death Thursday after the girl’s critically injured 12-year-old sister walked about a mile away from the home to find help.

Officers were first called to the Longwood home just after 5:30 a.m.

Longwood Police Sgt. Derek Chenoweth said they found a 4-year-old girl who had died. Her 12-year-old sister had walked to a nearby McDonald’s restaurant looking for help.

Investigators said the 4-year-old had suffered multiple stab wounds and that the 12-year-old had also been stabbed.


Police found a man at the home who also had stab wounds. He was identified as the girls’ father, 39-year-old Juan Bravo-Torres, and was taken to the hospital for treatment.

Police named Bravo-Torres as a person of interest in the case and said they believe his stab wounds were self-inflicted.

Injured 12-year-old girl walks nearly a mile for help after sister stabbed to death, police say

A Florida dad is named a person of interest after his daughters were stabbed and his 4-year-old died.

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[DeeDee]

Why did she walk so far? I don't understand why she didn't ask the neighbors for help.

This is really terrible. And of course 4 yr old dies but dad lives to claim it was just mental illness and he loved his daughters to death. All the killers say they loved their kids to death. Such a weird choice of words considering.

I hope mom can afford counselling for the surviving daughter because her teen years wouldve been hard enough without serious injuries, the loss of her sister, and a murderous father who wanted her dead.

I wish I could say I have empathy of some type for the parents who decide life is desperate enough for murder suicide. But I don't. I just hate them completely. How you can choose to harm your children instead of finding somewhere private to go off your sorry self is beyond me.

 

[Metalfan]

It seems that girl has more heart than most adults.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A 12-year-old girl in Florida survived an attack from her father by playing dead after he killed her 3-year-old sister.

The father, 39-year-old Juan Bravo-Torres, is facing first-degree premeditated murder and attempted murder charges after police say he stabbed his 3-year-old daughter to death and attacked his 12-year-old daughter early on Thursday morning.

According to a arrest affidavit, the 12-year-old victim was asleep when she was awakened by her father, Bravo-Torres, reaching for her throat. The girl thought Bravo-Torres, was reaching for her necklace, but grabbed and cut her throat.

When Bravo-Torres went to get another knife, the girl attempted to escape the bedroom and saw her 3-year-old sister lying dead in the hallway.

According to the affidavit, when Bravo-Torres returned, the girl fought back and eventually “acted dead,” in the hopes Bravo-Torres would stop attacking her.

Police said the father then dragged the 12-year-old and her little sister into the bathroom, where he slit his own wrists and she “heard what sounded like he was cutting his throat.”

The girl then laid still until she thought her dad lost consciousness, grabbed the knife he used in the attack to protect herself, and walked nearly a mile to a nearby McDonald’s where her mother worked.

At McDonald’s the girl told her mother what happened, and Longwood police were alerted.

“At that age, to be sleeping and woken up by being attacked with a knife, seeing your younger sister in the condition she was in, fighting off your father, and having the mindset to think, ‘How am I going to get out of this?’ When he lost consciousness, she got out of the house, and she went to where she knew her mom was, and it’s just remarkable,” Longwood police Sgt. Derek Chenoweth said in a press conference. “Grown adults may not have been able to come to that decision, and this 12-year-old did that, and she’s alive today because of the choices that she made.”

When police arrived at 5:40 a.m., they found Bravos-Torres critically injured and the 3-year-old girl dead.

12-Year-Old Girl Played Dead After Dad Attacked Her And Finding 3-Year-Old Sister Dead In Florida » Illicit Deeds

A 12-year-old girl in Florida survived an attack from her father by playing dead after he killed her 3-year-old sister.

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[BuffettGirl]

That poor 12 year old. What a nightmare. She's a hero! I want to be like her when I grow up...

 

[Babs]

The inevitable PTSD will be a tough hurdle for her. Sure hope she heals well, both physically as well as emotionally. And may her father rot in hell.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Police reported that the father of two girls stabbed, one of them fatally, in a house in Longwood, Florida this Thursday, Juan Bravo-Torres, 39, had already been arrested for battery and domestic violence assault in 2011. .

"I can only speak for the Longwood police and the only contact we had with him was in 2011 when we arrested him for assault and domestic violence, I can't say if he has had any other charges at other police agencies in Central Florida," he explained. Longwood Police Officer Derek Chenoweth.

Padre acusado de matar a su hija de 3 años y herir a su hija de 12 tenía antecedentes violentos

Juan Bravo-Torres permanece en estado crítico en un hospital bajo custodia de la policía, acusado de la muerte de su hija de 3 años y de intentar asesinar a su otra hija de 12. El hombre ya había sido arrestado por violencia doméstica en 2011.

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[Sugar Cookie]

Florida prosecutors will seek the death penalty against the father accused of stabbing to death his 3-year-old daughter and slashing her older sister — who described in harrowing detail how she survived by playing dead.

Juan Bravo-Torres, 39, was indicted Tuesday on charges of first-degree premeditated murder and attempted murder stemming from the inconceivable attack on his children on July 21 in Longwood.

The dad apparently tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists and cutting his throat after allegedly butchering his toddler — identified in court documents reviewed by The Post as Eva Bravo-Herrera — but he survived and was jailed.

The State Attorney’s Office then filed a notice of intent to seek capital punishment Tuesday, citing several aggravating factors in the case, including claims that the felony was “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel,” that it was committed “in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner without any of moral or legal justification,” and that the victim was a child under 12 years of age.

Florida dad charged in daughter’s ‘heinous’ murder faces death penalty

The State Attorney’s Office filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Juan Bravo-Torres, 39, who is charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder for the July 21 atta…

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[Sugar Cookie]

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A father accused of killing his three-year-old daughter and slashing the throat of his 12-year-old is heading to prison for the rest of his life.

Juan Bravo-Torres, 39, pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges. He was sentenced Wednesday afternoon.

Bravo-Torres pleaded to the charges he faced, saying he acted when he felt his family was falling apart.


The state said it would set the possibility of the death penalty aside, and let Bravo-Torres plead to murdering his three-year-old and attempting to kill his 12-year-old if he offered an explanation to the court.

“The mother of my children wanted another family, did not want us,” Bravo-Torres said. "I've always been very jealous."

He told the court he first was going to take his own life after becoming aware his wife had a relationship with someone else.

“He did not want their children to be with another man, being the father. That's what precipitated it. He was a jealous man,” defense attorney Jeff Dowdy said.

"I don't hate him, but I'm mad,” the mother said.

Bravo-Torres was sentenced to life without parole.

In a statement from the state attorney's office, it said Bravo-Torres deserved the death penalty, but the family's desire to not have 12-year-old Alina testify at trial and relive her nightmare sent them in the direction of a plea and a life sentence.

Longwood father sentenced for killing 3-year-old daughter says he is 'very jealous' man

Juan Bravo-Torres pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges. He was sentenced Wednesday afternoon.

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[thuumpr]

I'm thinking the 12yo is a hero.

 

[runninfawn]

“The mother of my children wanted another family, did not want us,"... wrong jack'o dunkey.... the mother of your children didn't want another family she just didn't want you but you wanted to deprive her of her family just because you couldn't face being rejected ... if you were jealous you wouldn't have taken it out on your own kids but would have taken it out on their mom or her new man... what a bumwipe he is but again bumwipes have their own use

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Name:	BRAVO-TORRES, JUAN

Current Release Date:	SENTENCED TO LIFE

Current Prison Sentence History:​

Offense Date	Offense	Sentence Date	County	Case No.	Prison Sentence Length
07/21/2022	1ST DG MUR/PREMED. OR ATT.	01/11/2023	SEMINOLE	2201764	SENTENCED TO LIFE
07/21/2022	1ST DG MUR/PREMED. OR ATT.	01/11/2023	SEMINOLE	2201764	30Y 0M 0D

 

[DamagedGoods]

“He did not want their children to be with another man, being the father. That's what precipitated it. He was a jealous man,” defense attorney Jeff Dowdy said.

This seems like something that the prosecutor should be saying about his client, though admittedly, it's a refreshing change from the usual attempts to downplay guilt.

 

[GoneWest]

This seems like something that the prosecutor should be saying about his client, though admittedly, it's a refreshing change from the usual attempts to downplay guilt.

Agreed. If anything you’d think he’d say, “My client feared his children would be abused or taken away and he’d never see them again.” Guess when you’re going to die in the slammer anyway who gives a shit.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

They were property to him and he did not want another man to be the father he could not be.

He was also more concerned with hurting the mother than the well-being of his children.