NV - Sherrice Iverson, 7, sexually assaulted, killed in Primm casino, 25 May 1997

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It was a joyous morning (4:00 am), in a casino arcade. 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson was left in the care of her 14-year-old brother Harold, who obviously was NOT the most responsible person in the world. Their father Leroy Iverson gambled the night away. Sherrice like any adorable 7-year-old, ran through the casino with bliss. She met a male child who was around her same age, they began to throw wet paper towels at each other (innocently). One of Sherrice Iverson's paper towels hit a white male by the name of Jeremy Strohmeyer.
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18-year-old Jeremy Strohmeyer picked the paper towel up and threw it back at Sherrice. Shortly there-after, he became her playmate of "Hide and seek". Sherrice, with her 7-year-old mind, thought that the restroom would be a good hiding spot. Sadly enough, this was not the case. Strohmeyer followed Sherrice into the restroom (women's restroom), as he was walking towards her, she hit him with a "caution wet floor sign". He then picked her up and took her into a bathroom stall. His friend, David Cash, who is also white, entered the restroom, tilted his head over the bathroom stall and saw Strohmeyer sexually attacking Sherrice while saying "Shut up or I'll kill you". He asked Strohmeyer to stop (once) but Strohmeyer ignored his request. David Cash then left the restroom without alerting authorities or forcefully stopping Strohmeyer.

25 minutes later, Strohmeyer left the restoom alone. Cash asked "what happened". Strohmeyer replied "I killed her". The only thing Cash wanted to know about the attack is if Sherrice was "wet" when Strohmeyer touched her vagina. Strohmeyer replied saying the child had bled from her vagina as he "fingered her". He later told Cash that he had strangled her, but she was still breathing, he snapped her neck, she was still alive, than he twisted her neck around until he heard a loud pop.

The two heartless men left the casino and headed to their home towns, Long Beach, California.

After bragging about the murder to the students at his school, Strohmeyer was arrested and charged with two counts of rape, kidnap and murder. He avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole, a perfect sentence for a killer so young.

During Sherrice's funeral on May 31, 1997, at Paradise Baptist Church, her father and mother sat apart. They have not spoken to each other since their daughter's death. "Jesus, no! Jesus, no,"her mother cried as she was led out. Yolanda has moved into her own apartment. She sometimes dreams about Sherrice. In one dream, Sherrice is lying on a closet shelf, wearing pajamas. She kisses her mother and says, "Hi, Mommy, I'm back."

Although David Cash did what is legally considered an accessory to a crime, he was never arrested. This caused nationwide outrage and media frenzy. More than a year later, the "Sherrice Iverson's Bill" was passed. This bill requires adults who witnesses sex abuse on minors under the age fourteen to report it or spend six months in jail. The weakest bill you've ever heard of huh?

Little Sherrice, is remembered as an honor student whose favorite colors were pink, yellow and purple. Teachers thought of her as affectionate and trusting. Her hair was neatly braided. Her clothes looked freshly ironed. She struggled with reading, was scared of the dark, adored "The Little Mermaid," and liked to jump rope. She wanted to be a nurse or a policewoman or a model or a dancer.

Her case still echos in the nation. Her death shattered her family; left her mother broken-hearted, sickened her father who later died, and destroyed her brother's life with guilt and remorse. Heartbreaking isn't it?
 
I remember this case and how sickened I was by it. The second boy will someday pay for his non-action, if not in this life, then in the next.
You're right about that law that was passed. Not quite worthless, but close.
 
I remember this little girl too. Both of those guys should have gotten life. Sad what the death of a child will do to a family. It either brings them closer together or tears them apart. In a case like this it was probably hard for blame not to be placed even if a person didn't want to feel that way. The father probably felt a lot of guilt because he left the little girl in the care of a 14 yr old while he gambled all night and blame towards his son for not watching her. The brother because he didn't watch her and maybe resentment towards the dad for putting that responsibility on him and poor mom because she wasn't there or wasn't home with the little girl and blame towards the father and son for not watching her. I wonder if mom was working by any chance. I can't imagine why else the little girl and her brother would have been at the casino with the dad all night. Easy to see how this family was torn apart.

That law isn't worth a hoot. Wow, a few days in jail. That will probably really worry some people.
 
I remember this little girl too. Both of those guys should have gotten life.

I happen to disagree with you here. The killer should have been executed, but for the accomplice, life in prison wouldn't be bad.

Sad what the death of a child will do to a family. It either brings them closer together or tears them apart. In a case like this it was probably hard for blame not to be placed even if a person didn't want to feel that way. The father probably felt a lot of guilt because he left the little girl in the care of a 14 yr old while he gambled all night and blame towards his son for not watching her. The brother because he didn't watch her and maybe resentment towards the dad for putting that responsibility on him and poor mom because she wasn't there or wasn't home with the little girl and blame towards the father and son for not watching her.

I blame it ALLL on her careless father. How DARE he leave 2 kids in a casino after midnight! I do believe the brother was careless (come on he allowed a man to chase his sister) but a 14 year old should not have been in the casino either!

I wonder if mom was working by any chance. I can't imagine why else the little girl and her brother would have been at the casino with the dad all night. Easy to see how this family was torn apart.

Sherrice and her brother had different mothers. Her brother's mom had died before Sherrice died, so he moved in with the father. Sherrice's mother loss custody of Sherrice, so she lived with her father. That judge made the WRONG mistake when he/she gave that guy custody of that little girl.
 
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7-year-old girl’s murder at Nevada casino still haunts 20 years later

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/7-year-old-girls-murder-at-nevada-casino-still-haunts-20-years-later/

“As investigators, there’s always going to be certain cases you remember forever,” Ramos said this month in his northwest Las Vegas home. “The Sherrice Iverson case is definitely one of those, just because of the dynamics of it: the absolute sheer innocence of the victim, the brutality of how she was killed, and the nonchalant attitude of Jeremy Strohmeyer.”

Sherrice would be 27 now. She was a smart Los Angeles second-grader who loved learning and had dreams of becoming either a nurse, police officer or dancer, her mother, Yolanda Manuel, told Strohmeyer in court the day of his 1998 sentencing.

“Are you a demon? Are you a devil?” she asked Strohmeyer, raising her voice before apologizing to the judge for her demeanor. “You are so evil if I had a wish here I would put you to death the same way you put my child to death. If it was my prison, I would blindfold you and shoot you in your feet and send you back to your cell.”

Efforts to find Manuel for this story were unsuccessful. Her California lawyer, Steve Lerman, who also represented Rodney King, told the Review-Journal that Sherrice’s death “ruined her life.” Sherrice’s father died in 2000. Efforts to reach Harold Lee Iverson, her brother, now 34, were unsuccessful.

In a handwritten letter to the Review-Journal this month, after he was asked about the case, Strohmeyer said he wants Sherrice’s family to know he is sorry.

“I want to ask for their forgiveness, and I want them to know I would give anything to trade places with Sherrice,” Strohmeyer wrote. “I just want them to know I am sorry, more sorry than words can ever say. I wish nothing but peace and good lives for them wherein their lives are not defined by this horrible tragedy as mine has been.”

Ramos doesn’t buy it. I don’t know what to make of that,” he said. “I don’t have any kind of sympathy for him in any way, shape or form. He was a vile person who committed an unspeakable act. There’s no way any remorse he thinks he feels right now is going to change any feelings that I had for him at the time that he did this, or even today.”

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RIP Sherrice

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Jeremy Strohmeyer doesn't have any remorse. To this day he still maintains that he blacked out the night of the murder, and that he doesn't know if he killed Sherrice.
 

Jeremy Strohmeyer was 18 when he pleaded guilty to molesting, kidnapping and killing Sherrice Iverson, seven, by strangling and snapping her neck in a bathroom at the Primadonna Resort and Casino in Primm, Nevada, in May 1997.

In October 1998, Strohmeyer was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences — one for each of the four charges he pleaded guilty to — without the possibility of parole.

Read more: Murderer who killed girl in Nevada casino 20 years ago seeks parole | Daily Mail Online

This monster cannot be allowed out.
 
I think it's a given that, if he were granted a new sentencing hearing, no jury would ever return a parole eligibility verdict. I can't help but wonder if what he really seeks is suicide by execution.
 
Judge denies new sentence for man who killed girl at Nevada casino
District Judge Douglas Smith enhanced his decision from late last week with a separate special order that laid out the gruesome facts of Jeremy Strohmeyer’s crime, along with the killer’s subsequent racist comments to friends, a confession to police and a computer loaded with child *advertiser censored*. The judge also pointed to Strohmeyer’s 1998 plea deal with prosecutors before addressing a psychologist’s testimony from this year that those in late adolescence — ages 18 to 20 — do not have the emotional and intellectual maturity of adults.

“The court finds that (Strohmeyer’s) actions were not the result of impulsive adolescent behavior, but instead were the result of pre-existing motives and well thought out fantasies,” the judge’s order states. Strohmeyer’s “life sentence is not disproportionate to the crime despite the harshness.”
 
A little info regarding Strohmeyer's "racist comments."

1998 Las Vegas Review-Journal article via the Wayback Machine:
LAS VEGAS RJ:NEWS: Strohmeyer friends testify before ...

According to state court documents, Trujillo told police Strohmeyer often made "off-color remarks about African-Americans and black people." Strohmeyer is white, and Sherrice was black.
In their follow-up interview with Trujillo on May 12, according to one court document, Koot and Leen asked the witness how Strohmeyer had described his victim when he confessed. Trujillo told the prosecutors Strohmeyer said, "I killed that little ."
The same document claims Wheeler told the prosecutors on that date that Strohmeyer had said, in reference to Sherrice, "There's one less in the world."
Clark County jail inmate Ronnie Chavez also claimed Strohmeyer had used that racial slur when talking about the victim, according to the court document.
 
His buddy should have been incarcerated with him, along with the worthless Father of Sherrice. But, he was too busy gambling to take care of his little girl.

I remember this crime, like it was yesterday, because it was so horrific. There is no potential for Rehabilitation here.

Although, Strohmeyer has interested me for years. He was adopted, his Mother was in an institution, and had been raped by a guard. Apparently the adoptive parents did not have this information. They stated if they had been told his family history, they would have given him more help. They tried, unsuccessfully to sue the State of california for giving them a child who had psychiatric problems. He was an infant.

Nature? Nurture? Is psychopathy inherited? Many people believe that it is. This is an unpopular theory, but I believe it has merit.
 

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