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Ecuador sentence in Brockton killings is 25 years

Victims’ kin relieved, but worry about parole

By Maria Sacchetti and Maria Cramer

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 08, 2012

An Ecuadoran court has sentenced Luis Guaman to 25 years in prison, the maximum penalty under their criminal code, for the beating deaths of a young mother and her 2-year-old son last year in Brockton. The sentence appeared online late Monday, one week after three judges in the city of Cuenca declared Guaman guilty of murdering housemate Maria Avelina Palaguachi and her son, Brian, in February 2011, and dumping their bodies in a trash bin behind their house.

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