Killer’s strange comments halt his sentencing
The sentencing of a Miramar man convicted in July of killing his estranged wife and dumping her body in the Everglades in 2012 was delayed Thursday after he stunned a courtroom by addressing cryptic comments to the President of the United States.
Cid Torrez, 44, was scheduled to be sentenced by Broward Circuit Judge Lisa Porter and was making a statement Thursday afternoon that focused on his profession of innocence and his love for his children. The only one of his children who was in court, 18-year-old daughter Vilet Torrez, had earlier given a blistering statement of her own, saying her father was a liar who made her sick.
Vilet Torrez shares a name with her mother, 38, the victim in the case. The mother disappeared on March 31, 2012. Her body was never found.
“Guess what, Dad. Yeah, I get your letters,” she said. “You want to know why I don’t reply? Because I don’t want to talk to you… I’m agnostic, but I can tell you now, you are going to go to hell. Thanks for everything dad. You wanted a letter from me. I’m sorry, but this is as good as you’re gonna get.”
Torrez’s gaze was fixed on his daughter throughout her statement, and when it was his turn to speak, he addressed her directly.
“I still love you,” he said, calling young Vilet Torrez his “jewel.”
“I still continue writing. I always wanted to have children like you, and I was blessed to