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- Toronto Sun
Illlegal immigrant who raped and murdered Rachel Morin caged for life
U.S. President Donald Trump frequently shone the spotlight on Martinez-Hernandez as justification for a border crackdown Get the latest from Brad Hunter straight to your inbox Maryland mom Rachel Moring was murdered while running. INSTAGRAM Cold-blooded killer Victor Martinez-Hernandez will never again see the light of day. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. 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Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The 24-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for raping and killing mother-of-five Rachel Morin in Maryland. Martinez-Hernandez became the poster boy for an American immigration system that had spiralled out of control with countless illegal immigrants being arrested for crimes like murder, sex and drug trafficking, and rape. U.S. President Donald Trump frequently shone the spotlight on Martinez-Hernandez as justification for a border crackdown. Martinez-Hernandez was convicted earlier this year of the rape and murder of Morin, 37, on a hiking trail in Bel Air, Maryland, in August 2023. Accused killer Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, left, composite. FBI The killer first assaulted Morin, then battered her head with rocks before strangling her. He then hid her body in a drainage culvert. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. DNA linked the killer to a home invasion the same year in Los Angeles. A little digging by cops revealed that Martinez-Hernandez was wanted in his native El Salvador for the murder of another woman. In a victim impact statement written by Morin's oldest daughter and read by the prosecutor, she outlined how the illegal immigrant had shattered her family forever. She wrote: 'Every milestone in my life is a reminder of what Victor Martinez-Hernandez has taken from me.' Rachel Morin. FACEBOOK The killer showed little emotion as his bleak future was unveiled in court. Judge Yolanda Curtin sentenced him to life for the first-degree murder conviction, life for the rape charge, and an additional 40 years for a third-degree sex offence and kidnapping charges. He will serve his sentence in a Maryland prison. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'Arguably, Harford County has never seen a case or a defendant more deserving of every single day of the maximum sentences this court imposed,' prosecutor Alison Healey said outside the courthouse. Martinez-Hernandez evaded the U.S. Marshals during a 10-month manhunt until he was arrested in June 2024 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Rachel Morin. FACEBOOK According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Martinez-Hernandez illegally entered the U.S. and was sent back across the Mexico border three times in 2023. But on his fourth entry, he caught up with Morin and murdered her. During the 2024 presidential election campaign, Trump zeroed in on the killer and others of his ilk in a pledge to shut the U.S.-Mexico border. His policies earned the support of Morin's family. Her brother, Michael Morin, addressed the Republican National Convention last summer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 'Open borders are often portrayed as compassionate and virtuous, but there is nothing compassionate about allowing violent criminals into our country and robbing children of their mother,' he said. bhunter@ @HunterTOSun Columnists Crime Editorial Cartoons Sunshine Girls Relationships
Toronto Sun
3 minutes ago
- Toronto Sun
HUNTER: 'Brutal and vicious' GTA killer who butchered wife dies in prison
Get the latest from Brad Hunter straight to your inbox Nelson Tayongtong stabbed his estranged wife 85 times. Nelson Tayongtong is on the night train to hell. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The 52-year-old former Toronto man pegged out of this life in a B.C. prison. Officials said it was natural causes, likely a stroke. And the world is a much better place without him. On Sept. 8, 2012, Tayontong attacked his wife, Aicha Saludares, in their Mississauga apartment. By the time his bloodlust was sated, he had stabbed Saludares a staggering 85 times. There were 53 additional 'incised' wounds. Family members made the horrifying discovery at Saludares' apartment unit at 480 Lakeshore Rd. E. in the city's Lakeview area. Cops and paramedics who attended the crime scene that late summer's day later described it as 'gruesome' and like 'something out of a horror movie.' Tayontang was arrested two weeks later in Oakville. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. What unfolded was a tangled tale of woe. How one of life's curveballs can unleash a once normal person onto the path to homicidal violence. KILLER AND VICTIM: Nelson Tayontong cut his wife, Aicha Saludares, to ribbons. Tayontong and Saludares had both been born in the Philippines and immigrated to Canada. Not long after the pair married in 2010, Tayontong suffered a debilitating stroke, losing much of his vision and his ability to walk and talk. But his new bride stood behind him. She worked a full-time job as a mortgage agent with the Canada Mortgage Store, and had a side hustle as an independent distributor for a company that sold nutritional products. Enterprising, caring, God-fearing, devoted. Even as her and her new husband's lives became increasingly difficult, Saludares, 40, remained cheerful and used social media to keep family and friends back home up to date on her hubby's medical crisis. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Aicha Saludares was done with her husband. She wrote: '(M)y husband is slowly gaining his memories back. … he is talking! I'm so happy!' Under her care, Tayongton's precarious health began improving. On her birthday, in April 2011, she expressed her gratitude to her friends, family and God. That happiness and feeling of being blessed would tragically be short-lived. 'I have so many things to be grateful in my life and I am excited for the years to come! Life is beautiful!' she wrote. But over the next 16 months, her outlook began to sour. Friends told the Mississauga News that the cheery immigrant grew increasingly unhappy in her relationship with the man who would eventually kill her. There were suggestions that there was a new man in the victim's life, or maybe money was the motive. Either way, Tayongtong was not going to be a part of Saludares' future. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. And in October 2017, nearly five years after the murder, Nelson Tayongtong was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 17 years. The killer appealed based on a Brampton courthouse outburst where he 'uttered several inculpatory statements including admissions of guilt.' Judge Leonard Ricchetti ruled the statements made by Tayongton were fair game for prosecutors. His appeal was kicked to the curb by the Supreme Court in 2021. With good reason. 'The murder was as brutal as imaginable,' Ricchetti wrote. 'The utterly brutal nature of the attack demonstrates a callous, personal animosity to Aicha.' Riccheti also took umbrage at the killer putting the murder weapon in the victim's hand to pin some of the blame on the dead woman. 'Whether this was a feeble attempt to try to establish Aicha was using a knife to instigate the attack or defend herself against an intruder is not clear on the evidence,' the sentencing decision said. 'This murder was carried out in the most brutal, cold-blooded and callous manner. 'It is simply impossible to imagine the amount of sheer hatred and drive that Mr. Tayongtong had that morning when he murdered Aicha.' And now, Nelson Tayongtong is dead. Unmourned. Despised. Forgotten. bhunter@ @HunterTOSun Columnists Crime Editorial Cartoons Sunshine Girls Relationships
Ottawa Citizen
5 hours ago
- Ottawa Citizen
Today's letters: There's nothing noble about a MAGA bot
Saihajpreet Singhhas launched multiple AI bots looking to support conservative politicians in the U.S. Photo by JULIE OLIVER / Postmedia THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles from Elizabeth Payne, David Pugliese, Andrew Duffy, Bruce Deachman and others. Plus, food reviews and event listings in the weekly newsletter, Ottawa, Out of Office. Unlimited online access to Ottawa Citizen and 15 news sites with one account. Ottawa Citizen ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles from Elizabeth Payne, David Pugliese, Andrew Duffy, Bruce Deachman and others. Plus, food reviews and event listings in the weekly newsletter, Ottawa, Out of Office. Unlimited online access to Ottawa Citizen and 15 news sites with one account. Ottawa Citizen ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors The Ottawa-based pro-MAGA bot creator says many people hate him. I can see why. He creates a program, which he seeks to whitewash as something noble, as a step towards using AI for public relations. Well, he's succeeded in the vilest way, throwing his support to the likes of Trump, who imagines himself a masterful general but is in reality an authoritarian lunatic who acts out his fantasies with cruel acts of petty vengeance. The creator of this tool could have done something ennobling with the tool rather than proving himself one. Frank A. Pelaschuk, Alexandria Your story on the Pro-MAGA AI bots sets out what is in essence an attack on free speech. Free speech, among other purposes, has a political role. It permits each of us in a democracy to participate in the public life of our country, to express ourselves in service of the common good. The pretence of a multiplicity of expressions of support for President Trump, not a friend of Canada, made possible by AI, is not only dishonest, but it flies in the face of the principle of equality essential to our democracy. AI falsifies the intensity of the expression of views by dishonestly utilizing the appearance of a multiplicity of wills. AI makes it possible for free speech to have not only a 'qualitative' disqualifier, but also a 'quantitative' disqualifier as well. Jean-Jacques Blais, Ottawa Judging by his turban, Saihajpreet Singh, the software engineer who has invented a bot that sends pro-MAGA messages to X 1,000 times a day, is a Sikh. As far as I know, their religion demands they live ethical, honest lives. Hard to see how fooling people 1,000 times a day fits into those aspirations. Finally someone with the gumption to support Trump and the Republican Party. After hearing lots of negativity about Trump from Canadians, it's nice to know there are people like Saihajpreet Singh. Kudos to him for his pro-MAGA and -Trump stance.
