THE SICK, SADISTIC ***** CHRISTIAN GOD JUST LAUGHED HIS SICK ***** OFF
WHILE THE CHILD WAS BEING RAPED AND MURDERED

THE SICK, SADISTIC ***** CHRISTIAN GOD JUST LAUGHED HIS SICK ***** OFF WHILE
THE CHILD WAS BEING RAPED AND MURDERED

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/03/07/girl.slain/index.html

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- John Evander Couey was found guilty Wednesday of
murder, kidnapping, sexual assault and burglary in the abduction and death
of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford.

Couey, 48, stood beside his lawyer and showed no emotion as the verdict
was read.

The jurors reached a verdict after about four hours of deliberation.
(Watch as Couey hears he has been found guilty )

Earlier Wednesday, Couey sat in the courtroom, rolling his tie up and
down, interlacing his fingers and twiddling his thumbs.

The penalty phase of the trial, in which jurors will decide whether Couey
should get the death penalty or life in prison without parole, begins
Tuesday.

In the interim, the judge ordered jurors to avoid the media and stay in
semi-sequestration at home.


Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Richard Howard will decide whether to
accept the jurors' sentence recommendation.

"Justice will prevail, that's what I've always said, but it's not over
yet," said Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, after the verdict was
announced.

Jessica Marie Lunsford was abducted from her Homosassa Springs, Florida,
home February 23, 2005. Her body was found nearly a month later, buried
within sight of her own home and behind the house where Couey was staying
with a relative.

She was found wrapped in garbage bags, holding a stuffed toy dolphin, her
hands bound with stereo wire.

Investigators said Couey abducted Lunsford from her bedroom. Jessica died
from asphyxiation after being sexually assaulted, according to a medical
examiner's report.

Police arrested Couey in Georgia in March 2005 during the search for
Jessica.

His confession helped lead investigators to the girl's body, but a judge
ruled the confession was inadmissible in court because he had asked for a
lawyer the day before he told police he committed the crime.

Evidence at the trial included Jessica's fingerprints in a closet in
Couey's trailer and DNA from Jessica's blood and Couey's semen on a
mattress in his bedroom.

Jessica's father has led a push for stricter sex offender laws since his
daughter's 2005 death.

Gov. Jeb Bush signed the Jessica Lunsford Act into Florida law. The
legislation calls for prison sentences of 25 years to life for sex
offenses against children under age 12, better registration of convicted
sex offenders and a GPS notification system to track down probation
violators.

Lunsford read a statement outside the courthouse Wednesday, calling for
his daughter's death to serve as a wake-up call to legislators across the
country.

"We have gone through hell and come out the other side with a mission:
Before the next family loses a child to America's failed system, we're
going to hold lawmakers accountable for allowing this open season on our
children," he said.

"We are coming to Washington. We are bringing with us a dedicated plan for
a federally-funded, federally-strategized and nationally-waged war on
child predators. We will force them to listen