Illegal alien rapes elderly woman in wheelchair - and kills her dog

With the assistance of a Spanish interpreter, Cuy Xum repeatedly asked for forgiveness and apologized for what he did.

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73-year-old rape victim: Security, independence, privacy, pet all gone
By: Heather Nann Collins , Journal Inquirer

08/23/2007
For a 73-year-old disabled East Hartford woman, the life she had before Alejandro Cuy Xum raped and beat her early one morning is gone forever.Gone, she told a Hartford Superior Court judge on Wednesday, are her sense of safety and security.
Gone are the friendships she had with her neighbors at the Willow Arms apartment complex on Main Street.

Gone is her independence: Since the attack, she has moved to an assisted living facility, where instead of privacy and a home filled with a lifetime of memories she shares a room with another person and must confine her personal items to one dresser.And gone too is the canine companion that Cuy Xum also beat when he sneaked into the woman's apartment just after 4 a.m. on July 18, 2005.

"When someone invades your home and there is nothing you can do to protect yourself, you feel terribly vulnerable," she wrote in a statement to Judge Thomas P. Miano.

The woman - who is confined to an electric wheelchair and tethered to an oxygen tank - was accompanied by her daughter, who read her mother's three-page statement at Cuy Xuy's sentencing Wednesday...

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