Toronto Teen gets Life for Murdering 14-year-old Rival
TORONTO - A teenage girl with a "capacity for manipulation" and a "lack of empathy" who waged a relentless campaign to have her 14-year-old perceived romantic rival killed, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for the "malevolent" crime. Previously identified only as M.T. because she was just shy of her 16th birthday at the time of the murder, her adult sentence for first-degree murder means Melissa Todorovic can now be named.
At her behest, Todorovic's then 17-year-old boyfriend lured Stefanie Rengel from her home on New Year's Day 2008. The boyfriend, known only as D.B., has pleaded guilty to stabbing Rengel six times and leaving her to die in a snowbank...
Todorovic viewed Rengel, who had been in a brief and non-s*xual relationship with D.B. when she was 12, as her rival and over the course of Todorovic and D.B.'s "stormy" relationship, Rengel grew for Todorovic "from an irritation to an obsession," Nordheimer said.
Todorovic "engaged in an unrelenting campaign over many months to cause the death of a 14-year-old girl that she had never met," he said.
She placed "relentless pressure" on D.B. through instant messages, text messages and Facebook messages threatening to withhold s*x from him if he didn't kill Rengel.
D.B. earlier pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and his sentencing hearing begins in September.
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At her behest, Todorovic's then 17-year-old boyfriend lured Stefanie Rengel from her home on New Year's Day 2008. The boyfriend, known only as D.B., has pleaded guilty to stabbing Rengel six times and leaving her to die in a snowbank...
Todorovic viewed Rengel, who had been in a brief and non-s*xual relationship with D.B. when she was 12, as her rival and over the course of Todorovic and D.B.'s "stormy" relationship, Rengel grew for Todorovic "from an irritation to an obsession," Nordheimer said.
Todorovic "engaged in an unrelenting campaign over many months to cause the death of a 14-year-old girl that she had never met," he said.
She placed "relentless pressure" on D.B. through instant messages, text messages and Facebook messages threatening to withhold s*x from him if he didn't kill Rengel.
D.B. earlier pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and his sentencing hearing begins in September.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090728/...
