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Crisostomo to be sentenced today
Joseph A. Crisostomo, a habitual offender who was convicted of kidnapping, raping, killing, and robbing bartender Emerita R. Romero, will be sentenced today.
Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho will hold the sentencing at 9am.
Last April 24, a jury found the 40-year-old Crisostomo guilty of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual assault in the first-degree, and robbery.
Camacho, who presided over the trial and decided the misdemeanor charges, found Crisostomo guilty of assault and battery and disturbing the peace.
First-degree murder carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment; sexual assault in the first degree, 30 years; kidnapping with injuries, 30 years; robbery with injuries, 20 years; assault and battery, one year; and disturbing the peace, six months.
At today’s sentencing hearing, those who don’t support leniency for Crisostomo will be allowed to speak first. Those who support leniency will speak next.
Romero was last seen boarding a car near her house in Garapan in the early morning hours of Feb. 5, 2012. Two days later, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents found her body in a small room at an abandoned La Fiesta Mall in San Roque/As Matuis. Autopsy showed she was beaten up and strangled to death with a pair of leggings.
