TAMPA, Fla. — Whilst Ronnie Oneal confronted the ultimate judgment for murdering his ex-girlfriend, Kenyatta Barron, and daughter, Ron’Niveya — crimes that captivated folks throughout the nation — he supplied up no sorrow.
“I’m not sorry for one thing I didn’t do, and I’m not sorry for the issues I did do,” he stated, as he yelled in direction of members of the family within the courtroom.
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His phrases got here as no shock to Kenyatta’s household.
“It’s the identical response he’s at all times had in life, it’s the identical response that prompted him to commit these murders. You guys simply bought to see it for your self,” stated Daisatta Barron, Kenyatta’s youthful sister.
She and different members of the family took the stand and had been in a position to communicate from their hearts. They informed Oneal what they’ve waited three years to say.
“Once you sit in that cell for the remainder of your life, keep in mind you don’t omit till you’re in a field, so whenever you sit in a cell day-after-day, 24 hours a day, that scream… I need you to listen to it,” she stated, referring to the 911 name the place Kenyatta was screaming for her life. “When she involves you in your desires, I need you to obtain it.”
The decide additionally shared her ideas. She informed Oneal this was the worst case she’s ever witnessed and can stay with the details and proof she noticed for the remainder of her life. She recalled a second within the trial when a firefighter testified about discovering Ron’Niveya’s physique and laying her out on the entrance garden realizing she was not alive.
“When he stated he retrieved the physique of Ron’Niveya Oneal from the house, and all he may do was sob, it took each ounce I needed to not begin sobbing too,” Choose Michelle Sisco stated. “As a result of there is no such thing as a means any individual with any feeling may have witnessed or seen the images of what occurred that evening and never be haunted for the remainder of your life. I do know I will likely be, for the remainder of my life, I will likely be haunted by what I noticed so far as the proof and the abject cruelty of all of it.”
She bought particularly emotional as she spoke about Ron’Niveya and what he did to her.
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“The primary time you struck her with that hatchet, and little Ronnie testified that each one he may see was tears popping out of his sisters face, at that second that youngster knew she knew she was being betrayed within the cruelest and most tragic and sorrowful means {that a} youngster could possibly be betrayed,” she stated. “She was being betrayed by her mother or father, the one person who ought to be there to guard their kids and love them and hold them from hurt.”
Oneal will spend the remainder of his life in a jail cell with out the possibility of parole. Kenyatta’s household feels it is a win even when he wasn’t sentenced to loss of life.
Afterward, they shared movies of Kenyatta, who they name Keke, and Ron’Niveya or Nivey, for the primary time.
“Love your self, I imply love your self,” Kenyatta stated in a video she posted on-line. “If any individual ever tells you you can’t do one thing, steer clear of that individual, as a result of there’s so many damaging folks on this world that attempt to make you be one thing you’re not. Make you be one thing they need you to be.”
They are saying Keke was a loving mom who went above and past for her kids. They shared a video of Nivey and little Ronnie swimming in a pool, the place you may hear Keke cheer her on as she splashes round.
Her mom Carrie is heartbroken and riddled with disappointment. She stated she doesn’t sleep a lot at evening and depends on reminiscences to get her by.
“My household is my life. I breathe from my household. So, now you’ve bought me gasping for air since you took my kids from me,” she stated.
Subsequent week, they may rejoice Ron’Niveya’s birthday on the gravesite, simply as they do yearly. She would have been 13 years outdated.
