Adela Perez confronts her son's killers as they receive sentences
Adela Perez sits on the bench outside Courtroom 49 in the Hall of Justice, clutching four pages of notes. The papers have been bent and wrinkled. Every few moments Perez nervously shuffles them some more, flipping a page and grabbing onto a new section of the paper. When not fidgeting, she lays the notes in her lap and folds her hands over them. Today is a day of reckoning for Adela Perez. She will address the men who beat her 14-year-old son Oscar to death less than one year ago--the men she also holds responsible for the death of another son, David.
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