The Queens teenager involved in the attempted murder of a 12-year-old boy who was found bleeding to death alongside the Jackie Robinson Parkway was sentenced today for up to six years in prison.
Carina Parache, 15, admitted that she and the father of her daughter, Wayne Henderson, repeatedly stabbed Luis Martinez in the head, neck, legs, chest, hands and back after the boys had an argument about whether Martinez had a crush on her.
“I’m very sorry for what I did,” Parache said to Queens Supreme Court Justice William Erlbaum.
Parache pleaded guilty to attempted murder and will spend up to six years in prison as a juvenile offender.
Authorities said Henderson, 16, and Martinez, 12, were hanging out inside Highland Park on January 11, 2010 when the argument escalated to violence.
Parache kicked Martinez in the head and face while Henderson repeatedly stabbed and slashed an “X” on his right cheek. Henderson then handed Parache the knife saying, “You stab him,” she then plunged the weapon into his neck and leg, according to the criminal complaint.
“This was a very cowardly thing you did,” said Judge Erlbaum.
Martinez staggered out of the park and lost a significant amount of blood. He was sent to an area hospital and later moved to Cornell Medical Center for reconstructive surgery to his jugular veins.
Henderson is currently awaiting trial.