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MIAMI -- The husband of a woman found slain along with her two young daughters in their northwest Miami-Dade house has been arrested and charged in their deaths, police said Tuesday.
Alberto Sierra, 28, is facing three counts of first-degree murder, sexual battery on an adult and sexual battery on a minor in the deaths of Gladys Machado and her 4- and 6-year-old daughters, Miami-Dade Police said.
According to an arrest affidavit, Sierra, Machado and the girls went to the Mall of the Americas on Nov. 10 where Sierra and Machado got into an argument.
Sierra armed himself with a knife, and Machado sustained injuries as a result of the argument there, the affidavit said. He then drove Machado and her daughters to a home in the 7300 block of Northwest 4th Street, where he locked the girls in one of the bedrooms and forced Machado into the master bedroom, the affidavit said.
Once in the master bedroom, Sierra suffocated Machado with a plastic bag "and subsequently sexually assaulted her," the affidavit said.
Sierra let one of the girls out of the bedroom and suffocated her, the affidavit said. He suffocated the other daughter with a plastic bag while she slept, then sexually assaulted the other daughter, the affidavit said.
The bodies of Machado and her daughters were found last Tuesday in a closet at the home, police said.
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Sierra and Machado were married but had no children in common and were not living together when the murders took place, the affidavit said.
Sierra, who had been questioned and released by police last week, had been brought in for questioning again Monday night. He was being held without bond Tuesday and it's unknown whether he has an attorney.
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He gave a full confession of his involvement in the three homicides, the affidavit said.
According to court records Machado divorced the father of her three children, who included the two girls that died and a 6-year-old boy who police said was found alive elsewhere.
It was not immediately known if he had an attorney.
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What a sick phuck. Hang the bastard. Or suffocate him. With a plastic bag. While sexually assaulting him with a rusty pole.
@ AzDrummer
You sir have a talent for understatement, no offense meant. "Sick phuck" doesn't even come close to describing this guy. I don't think there's a word or phrase derogatory enough to describe this evil SOB.
Yeah, there really aren't adequate words for this abomination. Put the dog down. That's all that can be done sometimes; there's just no reaching someone who could do something like this.
I certainly agree with you both, however, that was the best I could come up with at the time. And I didn't want to post anything too graphic and have my comment deleted. But they definitely should fry the POS who commited these horrendous crimes.
I was kinda thinking something more to the effect of rusty razor blades. Okay, being an independant, i'm willing to compromise. How about we super glue the rusty razor blades to your rusty pole? Fair? :)
That is the sickest crap I've read!! I agree with all of you--he should be assaulted himself (and I'm with you Michael--with rustly blades, so that as he bleeds, he can scream as he dies from the blood loss).
What a sick bastard!!!
PS. Please let's not call him a dog--that's an insult to dogs!
Animals like this, auction the enjoyment of putting a bullet in his head on EBAY. Take the money give it to charity while allowing someone to also perform a public service.
From what I hear, he will enjoy prison. Of course, they will probably "protect" him from other inmates, as any abuse will violate his civil rights (and we surely can't violate the rights of someone who murders someone else's little kids).
Unfortunately, we got the justice system we deserve. He will never get what he deserves until he dies.
why would the surviving child need an attorney?
only someone that is mentally corrupt would do that to children! i hope he never tastes the air of freedom...they need to put him under the jail but even that would be to good for someone like him.
I believe he deserves the death penalty. Save the taxpayers money from being wasted for many years, for a change.
Well, it happened in Florida so more than likely he will get the death penalty.
Monster.
I have to give the cops that don't just put a bullet in scumbags like this credit for keeping in line. I wouldn't be able to do it.
That would be hard job I know I couldn't do.
UDunnoBro - Good on you for admitting to that...otherwise you would be just as culpable for being a scumbag who killed another scumbag. Wait, it might not be such a bad thing. It happens on the battlefield all the time. Who is the better scumbag though?
RFFN!!!
Actually what happens on the battlefield is worse. Because that other guy probably isn't a scumbag at all, he's probably just like you, has a family he cares about (and that cares about him) and certainly didn't start the mess. I've always said that the politicians that declare war should have to physically start the war. Then, after they are dead everyone else can decide if that solved all the issues. Odds are good it would.
FLORIDA again!
Here we go again. Miami. What in the HELL was wrong with that man? A**hole! Totally ruined SO many lives. This makes me SICK!!!!!!! God Bless and RIP. What a waste. F*cker!
Devil's Advocate - Maybe he just had a bad day? Who here can say truthfully you have not also? Most people who do, however, dont engage in the activities this scumbag did. But let the law system take its course. I bet he tries the insanity route, they all do.
RFFN!!!
I have bad days all the time. I don't sexually assualt women/children, nor do I commit murder. That's overkill (pardon the pun) for having a bad day. The guys a punk & sexual predator w/a control obsession. the mother should've armed herself w/a knife & her & kids would be alive today. Women need to stop finding/dating/marrying/putting up w/losers like this. ladies- you can't take a pile of dogsh!t and turn it into an ice cream sundae. Leave the losers alone. that's why they're alone to begin with.
Well said njcyn...well said!
RFFN!!!
njcyn: unfortunately...and I certainly can't speak for this particular case...very often "like finds like." I don't mean this judgmentally or as any sort of excuse for what happened. In any case, those poor kids were helpless victims.
If the single people are losers then you have to be suggesting that women only go after married guys. Let's see how far that goes before a married woman does somethig to keep her catch of a "good guy".
what the hell is wrong with people?
Pour gasoline on him and lite him up.......this will be a good training session to where he's headed to.....enjoy eternityyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
It would take someone having no humanity to do such a monstrous act.Which is what this murderer himself has demonstrated. As a society, we cannot sink to his level. He needs to be brought to justice and then pay for his crimes according to our laws. That is the difference between him, others who have done similar deeds and society. Such a despicable creature deserves nothing less.
It would be so easy to let our feelings of outrage take over and let someone just kill him in a terrible manner. Because he has demonstrated the cold ruthless being he is, society isn't safe if he is allowed to remain at large and he must answer for his deeds.
But by giving in and doing what our anger and desires wish, we would be betraying the foundations of what defines us as human beings and a civilized nation. Including those freedoms, rights and liberties so dearly paid for by so many.Justice must be allowed to run its course.
Eloquently stated, Windancersong.
I still say smoke the S.O.B.
Windancersong -
I have to think you have never had a child or anyone else you love treated in such a manner. I get so sick of the preachy "rise above it all" comments like yours.
People like this man are nothing but gutter snipes that need to be put down as quickly and efficiently as possible. The only mercy he deserves is to do it quickly.
Let "justice" run its course? There is no such thing as "justice." Where the hell do you live? Justice is a fantasy desert fed to us to keep us in line after we have swallowed the main course of illusional "law and order" meat and potatoes.
Juvenile court judges selling kids to private prisons so they can pocket millions in kickbacks and ruining their lives, some of the kids committing suicide. Kids in detention centers being raped by the guards. Kids being beat to death and the coroner at the detention center calling it "preexisting condition." Indigent juveniles being talked into pleading guilty to crimes they didn't commit by their court appointed attorneys.
Justice? There is no such thing.
Actually, I have had a niece murdered, who was a but a small child. I do not speak from lack of experience when I look to the justice system for those who commit terrible crimes. I have seen what rage and bitter can do to destroy a life time and again.I have seen it consume souls through out my life.
I too have experienced terrible things, and no justice was given to me against those who committed such acts. I still choose to stand by our justice system with all its shortcomings. For it is better than any other society in the world as far as rights and liberties.
We must not forget, life isn't going to be fair to begin with. There is always room for improvement. People will make mistakes. While a man left to distribute his own justice, I fear would be most unwise at times.And does not have enough experience and wisdom when he is personally involved to be objective when it is needed most.
Running a red light and killing someone is a mistake. Putting a bag over someones head and having sex with them while they die (especially when they are six) falls into another category.
One point to keep in mind: despite everyone "fry the bastard" comments, he is only going to rot in prison at our expense. Case closed.
Let's just hope he never escapes.
Machado
Machado is a surname commonly found in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Brazil, derived from Latin (Marculatum) Martelo[1] meaning hammer.
And your point?
@ram my point is to show the origin of the name and connect it to the violent murder. Florida is a showcase for ugly barbarism and there must be a tie to something other than the snowbirds population.
The root of my name is "Pig Herder" which, by your definition, would make me farmer or herder (I am in Customer Service/IT)... I don't see any relavance.
I......really .....don't think I'd go around telling people that the origin of MY name was "Pig Herder."
Unless, of course, it's some sort of cathartic experience for you to spill your guts and tell them....just saying........maybe your lineage were really good at it several hundred years ago....you know....before there were Customer Service/IT guys around???????
Nothing wrong with telling people what your name means, as last names told people your profession, in the old days.
The root of my surname means "well hung" ;)
Leaving aside the question of your extremely questionable logic, you do realize that Machado was the name of the victim, right? The murderer's name is Sierra, which means "mountain range."
Thank you. I knew someone else would notice that. (But not that it would be Someoneelse.)
We did get this out of the pointless stream:
LMAO! Thank you, too, ProFreedom!
It could of been a veiled attempt to imply the guy slipped in under the barbed wire.
Mahooty translates to "eats pu$$y like a champ".
What does "smoot" mean, cum covered?
...and some lawyer will cite Cruel and Unusual Punishment and how he shouldn't be executed. That said lawyer'd be singing a different tune if that was his daughters that got killed... when will this country learn....
death penalty case...and do it soon please...then send his body back to which ever country he came from...
death sentence!!! that story was sickening. that man knew exactly what he was doing, so they better not turn another story like this into a mental illness!! kill the s.o.b.!!
what a sick sick man. RIP to the family who was taken too early and in such a cruel violent horrible way.
Death is too easy for that thing, but letting it live is worse.
I agree. Eviscerate him and allow him to die slowly.
There are no words to describe a person such as this man.He is obviously deranged and this should be a warning to women with children.You do not let any old body get involved with you when you are raising your children.
There are sick puppies in this world... Seems a lot of them are in Florida...
What is up with Miami-Dade, There are a lot of this crap goes on there.....I just read another story earlier today....just weird
YAY for multicultural america!!!!xoxoxoxo
Deranged people come in all colors and all races, just FYI. Another ridiculous, racist comment from pained1! Surprise, surprise!
I agree with you AllPeopleRights.
And Warren too, is an idiot. What does the surname have to do with this tragedy?
Pained...........Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy. As white as white gets.
He needs counseling. And he should perfoprm community service. Right after he is castrated with a chainsaw.
I hope they send him to prison, they don't abide no baby killers! He will have to live in isolation, thinking about what he done, for the rest of his miserable existance. That may be considered cruel and unusual punishment, but i don't care. Let the bastard suffer!!!! Slowly going insane.
And he'll get prison for a bunch of years. Why is there any reason to let this man live? He should be put to death. Period.
This guys life is over,too bad he had to take these young children with him.This monster will get life in prison or hopefully the death penalty.There is no way he will see freedom in his lifetime,he will remain the person he is, his legacy will be a child killer and murderer.
Another perverted catholic...
What an absolute monster. He should be given a long walk off a short cliff with a rope necklace. Those poor people.
Florida again. What's wrong with that place?
If i was the father I would have already sued the city He made a plea for help for his daughters and got laughed at WTF is wrong with that judge to not even look at the case i mean he would know better than you if his daughters life was at risk. Sad it could have been avoided at least for the little ones :(
Heinous. He should be slapped across the face until he is dead. Too bad no one takes their vows seriously anymore. The father should have been there to protect his children from monsters like this.