A man who played a role in the abduction and torture of a 13-year-old girl received his sentence on Monday while three of his family members wait to learn their punishments.
“The facts of this case were absolutely atrocious,” Judge Alvin Harrell III told Brandon Stanley Roque. He is one of the men involved in the 2016 kidnapping of a Clovis teen.
Roque was just 18 years old when prosecutors say he played a supporting role in his mother’s plot to kidnap and assault a young girl.
“It’s just pure evil,” the judge said. “That’s what it is. Pure evil.”
Action News is not allowed to name the victim because she was only 13. Her father and Roque’s mother, Sandra Garcia, were dating, and they all lived together.
But there was tension, and Garcia became upset after Johan Gidstedt asked her and her sons to move out of his home.
That’s when prosecutors say Garcia developed a plot with at least two other family members to have the teen girl taped up and shoved into a car trunk when she got home from school.