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Post by Graveyardbride on Mar 24, 2023 19:08:56 GMT -5
Aiden Fucci Sentenced to Life
This morning (March 24), Judge Lee Smith sentenced Aiden Fucci to life in prison for the brutal murder of 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey, a crime which Smith described as “heinous, atrocious and cruel,” and committed for no reason other than an “internal desire to feel what it was like to kill someone.”
As Fucci sat silently at the defense table with his public defenders, the judge continued, reminding those in the courtroom that Bailey had been stabbed 114 times – 49 defensive wounds, 35 wounds to her head and neck and 29 to her back and shoulder. “Tristyn Bailey was conscious, she was aware and she was doing everything she could to fend off this attack,” the judge added. “She suffered a painful, horrifying death from someone that she trusted. Her screams were most likely stifled by her own suffocating lungs.”
Members of the Bailey family were present in the courtroom and following Smith’s sentence, Forrest Bailey, Tristyn’s father, remarked that no one in Fucci’s family had apologized prior to the sentencing hearing. Referencing Fucci’s handwritten apology, Bailey said, “From his behavior at court, at no point has his actions fell in line with the letter.”
Bailey then addressed the ongoing charges against Crystal Lane Smith, Fucci’s mother. “The fact that we are continuing to have to go through the legal process makes the apology questionable,” he continued. “You’ve seen the videos from the home. You’ve seen the videos from the interrogation room. I would say if she is sorry, she can start by accepting responsibility.”
At a press conference following sentencing, State Attorney R.J. Larizza addressed the problems that led up to Tristyn Bailey’s murder. “Young people don’t seem to have respect for life. Aiden Fucci certainly didn’t. He said he was going to kill someone. And he did. And now we deal with the aftermath,” Larizza told reporters. Parents, he added, must address the issue and change the mind-set of children who are inclined to do something so detrimental, not only to the victim, but to the entire community. “It all boils down, I believe, to the families and respect for life,” he emphasized. “We seem to have lost that with some of our young folks today.”
Smith could have sentenced Fucci to as little as 40 years. Nonetheless, because of the Defendant’s age, his sentence will be automatically reviewed after 25 years.
Sources: Sarah Greene, WTLV, March 24, 2023; Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, March 24, 2023, and State of Florida v. Aiden Sean Fucci, Case No. 21-825-CF, Division 56.
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Post by pat on Mar 25, 2023 21:27:09 GMT -5
Everyone, except that fiend's family, is happy he got life. In 25 years when his case is reviewed, he'll be even more dangerous than he is now because he's not going to have it easy in prison. Of course, he's 6-foot-tall now, so there's no telling how big he'll be when he stops growing, so he'll continue bullying others like he did at the juvenile facility. At least the judge had better sense than to believe anything his family said. If his parents had been doing their jobs as parents, he wouldn't have been a pothead at age 14.
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Post by snowfairy on Mar 25, 2023 23:18:15 GMT -5
At least the judge had better sense than to believe anything his family said. If his parents had been doing their jobs as parents, he wouldn't have been a pothead at age 14. I went to high school with some potheads and they all turned out to be losers. This kid was only 14 and his friends said he was a huge pothead and all he ever talked about was marijuana and killing people. There's no way he could have smoked pot all the time unless his parents knew about it. I saw somewhere in this thread that his mother is a pothead and his father probably is also. People can say pot doesn't cause violent behavior, but Ted Bundy himself said that when he went trolling for victims, he was always smoking pot and drinking, and when he escaped the last time and went to Florida, he didn't kill anyone until after he bought pot from some band members who were living in the building where he was renting a room.
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Post by pat on Mar 26, 2023 22:32:56 GMT -5
I went to high school with some potheads and they all turned out to be losers. This kid was only 14 and his friends said he was a huge pothead and all he ever talked about was marijuana and killing people. There's no way he could have smoked pot all the time unless his parents knew about it. I saw somewhere in this thread that his mother is a pothead and his father probably is also. People can say pot doesn't cause violent behavior, but Ted Bundy himself said that when he went trolling for victims, he was always smoking pot and drinking, and when he escaped the last time and went to Florida, he didn't kill anyone until after he bought pot from some band members who were living in the building where he was renting a room. The parents of all the kids Fucci hung out with knew their brats were smoking marijuana. One of the deputies who went to the Absher house, where they were partying the night of the murder, said the entire house still smelled like pot, so there's no way the parents didn't know what was going on. So many parents today dismiss pot smoking as something everyone does, but it isn't. People in St. Johns County who know Fucci say that before the murder, it was unheard of to hear the name "Aiden Fucci" without the word "pot" in the same sentence.
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Post by Graveyardbride on May 12, 2023 16:54:22 GMT -5
Fucci’s Mother Pleads No Contest to Evidence Tampering
This afternoon (May 12), Crystal Lane Smith, 37, mother of killer Aiden Fucci, pled no contest to tampering with evidence for attempting to wash bloodstains from her son’s jeans.
The sheriff’s office learned of the blood-washing from a witness who contacted police, after which deputies viewed a home video tape inside the residence which Smith failed to turn off while she was tampering with what she knew was evidence. According to the arresting affidavit, “After [Aiden Fucci] left voluntarily with deputies, the defendant can be observed on her video surveillance going to A.F.’s bedroom at approximately 1255 hours, retrieving what appeared to be a pair of blue jeans, taking the jeans to an adjacent bathroom, and appeared to be scrubbing the jeans in the bathroom sink. The defendant then was observed on the video taking the jeans to her master bedroom for a period of time.”
It also was noted that while her son was being questioned by deputies, Smith “attempted to convince” him to claim he was actually wearing khaki pants on the night of the murder instead of blue jeans. “While in the interview room, [Fucci’s] parents asked him about anything that would be on his clothes from the previous night,” the affidavit continues. “[Fucci] advised he was wearing blue jeans. The defendant [Smith] asked if he was sure there was nothing on them. [Fucci] responded ‘I think so, why?’ The above-named defendant could be observed giving [Fucci] a questioning look and whispered, ‘Blood.’”
On March 24, when her son was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal stabbing death of his 13-year-old schoolmate, Tristyn Bailey, Smith commented: “As a mother, the love you have for your child is difficult to articulate to others, unless they’re a mother themself. To be helpless to protect your child is a mother’s worst living nightmare. To cope with such a loss is unimaginable. I grieve for the devastating loss of Tristyn, I grieve for the subsequent arrest of my son, and I grieve for the irreparable agony inflicted on the Bailey family, as well as all other friends and families affected. Most of all, however, I grieve for Stacy Bailey as a mother.”
During sentencing, Smith, through her attorney Matthew Kachergus expressed sorrow and the hope that everyone can now heal. “No one, with the exception of one person, knew what had happened to Tristyn,” the lawyer told the court. “Certainly Ms. Smith did not know what had occurred. She was a frantic mother trying to determine what was going on with her son. Only later was she made aware of the horrible crime that had been committed. She apologizes for any additional suffering her conduct caused the Bailey family.”
State Attorney R. J. Larizza did not agree. “Parents should always strive to teach their children integrity, honesty and responsibility,” he said. “What the defendant did was not protecting her child – she was assisting him in avoiding responsibility for an extraordinarily vicious and merciless crime. And that is a crime in more ways than one.”
Judge R. Lee Smith then sentenced Smith to 30 days in jail and five years’ probation. He credited her with one day served and explained she could apply for early probation after three years. Tampering with evidence is a third-degree felony and she was facing up to five years in prison.
Members of the Bailey family questioned Smith’s sincerity, citing the fact Fucci’s mother never apologized for her son’s actions. “What I cannot understand,” Stacy Bailey said, addressing Smith, “is how you knew our child was missing, your son was the last known person to see her, and yet you see something suspicious on his jeans and try to wash it out. All of the while you did not know if our child was injured or even alive, but you did nothing to help. … At what point did you ever stop to think about Tristyn’s well-being?”
Sources: WTLV, May 12, 2023, and Scott Butler, The Florida Times-Union, May 23, 2023.
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Post by pat on May 12, 2023 20:31:41 GMT -5
Wonder how long it will be before the old pothead fails a drug test? A month in jail and 5 years probation is insufficient punishment. Not only did she try to destroy evidence, she knew her kid was a pothead and did nothing about it. She should lose custody of her other children because she is totally lacking in moral fiber and isn't fit to raise a dog, let alone a child.
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Post by jane on May 13, 2023 13:30:34 GMT -5
Wonder how long it will be before the old pothead fails a drug test? A month in jail and 5 years probation is insufficient punishment. Not only did she try to destroy evidence, she knew her kid was a pothead and did nothing about it. She should lose custody of her other children because she is totally lacking in moral fiber and isn't fit to raise a dog, let alone a child. People are upset that she was allowed to enter a plea in exchange for 5 years' probation, because if she had raised him right and paid any attention to where he was and what he was doing, that girl wouldn't be dead. From what I hear, he didn't have a curfew and was free to party, walk the streets, or do anything else he wanted to do at all hours of the night.
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Post by pat on May 14, 2023 10:20:29 GMT -5
People are upset that she was allowed to enter a plea in exchange for 5 years' probation, because if she had raised him right and paid any attention to where he was and what he was doing, that girl wouldn't be dead. From what I hear, he didn't have a curfew and was free to party, walk the streets, or do anything else he wanted to do at all hours of the night. I heard someone say that if Fucci had come home and told her he'd killed Tristyn Bailey, she would have helped him hide the body.
Does anyone know where she's living now? I heard they were in Jacksonville.
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Post by Graveyardbride on May 15, 2023 14:30:22 GMT -5
I heard someone say that if Fucci had come home and told her he'd killed Tristyn Bailey, she would have helped him hide the body.
Does anyone know where she's living now? I heard they were in Jacksonville. They weren’t able to continue living in the neighborhood following the murder and placed their McMansion – which they had just purchased in December 2020 for $560,000 – on the market. It sold for $795,000 in November 2021, and I understand the new owners have painted the house a different color: a sort of greyish-brown. I’ve heard the family is now living in the Mandarin section of Jacksonville, which is around 10 miles from St. Johns, but haven’t checked into it because I don’t really care.
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Post by Kate on Aug 18, 2023 7:31:00 GMT -5
Was this fiend sent to an adult prison?
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Post by Graveyardbride on Aug 19, 2023 1:04:49 GMT -5
Was this fiend sent to an adult prison? Yes. By the time he was sentenced, he was 16-years-old, which the state of Florida deems old enough to serve time in an adult prison. He’s at Suwannee Correctional Institution in Live Oak.
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