The Virginia mother was sentenced to nearly 80 years in prison for fatally shooting her two daughters after slipping them a rubber band laced with melatonin to kill them when she could no longer use the girls as “exploitation” against her ex-husband, she said Saturday.
Ron Youngblood – whose ex-wife Veronica Youngblood was sentenced to 78 years in prison Friday for killing 5-year-old Brooklynn Youngblood and 15-year-old Sharon Castro five years ago – said the killing spree was a last-ditch effort. hurt him.
“The girls took advantage of him — took advantage to get what he wanted from me,” the 52-year-old former Navy veteran solemnly told The Post.
“He obviously knows the girls are the most important thing in my life.”
As of August 2018, the Youngbloods were living in Virginia and preparing to move to Missouri with their daughter.
Veronica Youngblood reneged on the move at the last minute and said she wanted to stay in the Old Dominion State with the girls, but the judge ruled Brooklynn, Ron’s only biological daughter, could still move to Missouri with her, she said.
Ron Youngblood said his ex-wife Veronica would use their daughter as an influence in their relationship. Prepared by Ron Youngblood
“When the judge decided I could go with Brooklynn, he saw that he had no more tools to use against me, so he decided to get rid of them,” he added.
In a twisted act of revenge, Veronica Youngblood shot the girls to death as they slept in their McLean apartment after drugging them on August 5.
Brooklynn, who was shot in the head, died at the scene. Sharon, who was injured in the chest and back, later died in hospital.
The teenager had successfully called 911 to inform dispatchers that her sick mother was the shooter.
After hearing his calls during the two-week trial, jurors were so traumatized that they asked if they could receive therapy.
Veronica Youngblood was sentenced to 78 years in prison for killing her two daughters.AP
As her eldest son lay dying, Veronica Youngblood called her ex-husband to tell him he hated her and had shot their children.
“He could do one thing that could really hurt me and he’s been trying for years and he didn’t succeed until he killed my daughter,” said Ron Youngblood, adding that he didn’t know his ex, who bought nine firearms. days before the shocking murder, will kill his daughter.
“I wouldn’t put it past him that he would try to do something to me, but I never thought he would do something to those girls.”
Ron Youngblood believes that his ex killed their daughter because she felt she couldn’t use them as a means of controlling her anymore after she planned to move in with them. Prepared by Ron Youngblood
Sharon, 15, called 911 to tell dispatchers that her mother had pulled the trigger. Fairfax County Circuit Court
In March, Veronica Youngblood was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of criminal use of a firearm.
He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, with his lawyer claiming that the Argentine native heard voices, but the defense was rejected.
During sentencing, the jury heard evidence that the killer’s mother grew up in poverty, was physically and sexually abused as a child and turned to sex work to take her first child.
Ron Youngblood said he has faith the judge will impose the maximum sentence, but even if his ex spends the rest of his days rotting in prison, he will always mourn his daughter.
“It’s not the most important thing in my life — it’s my life. That’s all I really care about. When he took it from me, it was something I could never get back.”
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