A man was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison for financially exploiting a 94-year-old El Portal woman, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office said.
Alejandro Diaz Torriente, 67, inserted himself into the incapacitated woman’s life to take her money and her property, according to a 2023 arrest affidavit. She was vulnerable because of physical and mental limitations and “infirmities of aging.”
“This case sends a clear message to those who seek to leave our elders destitute and discarded that we will not tolerate this type of heartless crime against our vulnerable residents,” State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in her office’s statement…