Cook County prosecutors said Almaru beat Maro to death with a metal pole and a rubber mallet.
CHICAGO -- A Tinley Park man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for beating his 17-year-old daughter to death days before her high school graduation in 2022.Mohammed Almaru, 44, was found guilty of first-degree murder in August in the killing of his daughter, Mia Maro.On Monday, a judge sentenced Almaru to 55 years in prison.
Maro's mother was the only other person home at the time, but was unable to step in to protect her, and her family said the tragedy happened without warning.But court documents shed a sickening picture of a web of abuse in the days leading up to Maro's death.Less than a week before Maro was killed, she sent a text message to her aunt after she got into an accident in her dad's car, according to the charging documents in the case.
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