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Lured out of her home on a school night, she was stripped naked below the waist.
Hysterical, clad only in her favorite T-ball shirt, she cried in the dark.
Then her attackers took turns raping the 9-year-old girl, and one viciously bit her shoulder.
To silence her, they used a knife and maybe an ice pick or screwdriver. There were 46 stab wounds, nine to the head. She was scratched and beaten.
After giving jurors that graphic account of Sharra Ferger's death eight years ago, Assistant State Attorney Jim Hellickson then pointed to the accused, Gary Steven Cannon.
Cannon did more than just take part in the sexual assault and murder of a child, the prosecutor said.
He enjoyed it.
"Cannon (told a witness) the sexual act he commited on the little girl would gratify him for a long time," Hellickson said.
Cannon and the victim's uncle, 39-year-old Gary Elishi Cochran, were indicted on first-degree murder charges in 2001. Cochran, who faces the death penalty, goes on trial in December.
The state's evidence: hair found on the victim that the state says matches Cannon's DNA, the bite mark matched to Cochran and jailhouse informers who say they heard both confess.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/09/15/Pasco/Slain_girl_s_agony_la.shtml
Hysterical, clad only in her favorite T-ball shirt, she cried in the dark.
Then her attackers took turns raping the 9-year-old girl, and one viciously bit her shoulder.
To silence her, they used a knife and maybe an ice pick or screwdriver. There were 46 stab wounds, nine to the head. She was scratched and beaten.
After giving jurors that graphic account of Sharra Ferger's death eight years ago, Assistant State Attorney Jim Hellickson then pointed to the accused, Gary Steven Cannon.
Cannon did more than just take part in the sexual assault and murder of a child, the prosecutor said.
He enjoyed it.
"Cannon (told a witness) the sexual act he commited on the little girl would gratify him for a long time," Hellickson said.
Cannon and the victim's uncle, 39-year-old Gary Elishi Cochran, were indicted on first-degree murder charges in 2001. Cochran, who faces the death penalty, goes on trial in December.
The state's evidence: hair found on the victim that the state says matches Cannon's DNA, the bite mark matched to Cochran and jailhouse informers who say they heard both confess.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/09/15/Pasco/Slain_girl_s_agony_la.shtml