This has taken me a couple of days to write this article. I write about a lot of children but for some reason this one really got to me and I find it hard to write about. Another child’s life stolen from her. It is just so sad.
7 year old Jorelys Rivera of Canton Georgia was playing at the playground by the River Ridge apartment complex where she lived while supposedly being watched by a babysitter. She decided to go back to her apartment to get something to drink for her and her friends but she never returned to the playground. She just disappeared. This was on December 2, 2011 at around 5 p.m.
After a few days of searching for the little girl, on December 5, the body of this child was found in a trash compactor operated only by the maintenance staff of the apartment complex. This poor precious child had injuries so severe that authorities wouldn’t even describe them at first. They said she had been beaten and stabbed and she had been sexually assaulted.
The investigation resulted in authorities finding out that Jorelys had been taken into one of the vacant apartment in the building where she was killed. They said her mouth was taped using duct tape and her hands and feet were tied with plastic ties and that her little body had been compacted by the mechanical dumpster.
Ryan Brunn, 20 years old, from Dahlonega, was arrested in Cherokee County charged with homicide and making false statements.
He worked at the apartment complex doing maintenance work and even bragged about it on his Facebook that he was able to live there free since he worked there. The strange part of this is that Brunn had actually participated in the search for Jorelys by passing out fliers with her picture on it according to other residents in the area.
One of the neighbors, Linda Hale, who lives next door to the Rivera’s said after the child was found she called the police with information about Brunn twice. She said that in the recent weeks she has spotted him driving around the playground slowly as he watched the children playing. She said it creeped her out.
Another resident, David Lott, told police while speaking about Brunn, “He was talking about how the police should be checking garages and checking cars.†He also said, “He didn’t seem like anything was wrong. He was calm and collected.â€
Karla Reister said she encountered Brunn, Saturday. She said, “I told him it’s sad this little girl is missing. He said, ‘this neighborhood is bad and it’s getting worse.â€
This guy is so young. What in the world could a 7 year old little girl have done to him to make him do such a horrific thing to her and then kill her? I have thought about this for a few days now and I just can’t seem accept it. He has thrown away his whole life now by doing what he has done. I just would like to know if he thinks it was worth it.
Jorelys mother, Joselin Rivera had to ask on her way to the funeral home, “Why, why. She was so innocent. Why did he take her like this?â€
My heart just goes out to this child’s family. They have to live with what happened to this child. They are the ones now that will be scarred for life knowing what happened to Jorelys. That sweet little girl must have been scared to death. I can’t even imagine the fear she was going through before she died. Preliminary autopsy reports show that she died of blunt force trauma to her head and the police believe that she was dead before being put into the compactor.
Jorelys mother’s employer, Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation has set up a Jorelys Rivera Memorial Fund to assist the family. Anyone that wishes to donate to the fund can be contact the United Community Bank in Canton at 770-479-6700.
Brunn’s family all seem to think he is innocent. His attorney, Daran Burns says his client is “very shaken.†The police feel differently though. “We are confident that Brunn is the killer,†GBI Director Vernon Keenan said. He also believes there will be additional charges from the DA’s office on Brunn too.
I pray that if Brunn is the killer that they find him guilty and that he pays with his life or at least that he is put behind bars for the rest of his life with hard labor and no benefit of parole. Anyone that can do something like this to an innocent child doesn’t deserve to ever be free again.
My thoughts and prayers are with Jorelys Rivera’s family now. I know Jorelys is sitting with God now watching down and she is no longer in any pain for God won’t let anything else happen to her now. God bless her little heart.
Jan Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackJan this is another one of those cases that just make you sick to your stomach. At least this sicko will not be able to hurt another child. I just can’t get into the mindset that thinks that this little girls life was expendable as soon as he got what he wanted from her.I am tired of hearing these people are sick. Like casey anthony, they are just evil.. Some good news today though, they finally got the guy that shot those two little girls walking on a dirt road nin Waleetka oklahoma. He had also killed his girlfriend last summer. My prayers for Jorelys family.
My Prayers are also with this Angel and her family. this child should of never had to suffer like this. rest in peace little one.
god bless jorelys family.
jorelys didn’t deserve to be killed like that honesly what was this guy thinking. is he a freak or something.
when i had this news my whole heart was troubled.i dont know her or her
family but i know
how it feel to loose a little pretty angel.the person that did this do not deserve to live,this little girl he took her life would have been a great person in this world.God you know the best for her.Bless her family,give them the strenght to endure this,i see josely sitting in the right hand of God,singing praises with angels.
Bye josely.
i never been so sad before hearing this mad my heart feel so sad i pray that her faimly is okay een though i didnt know the little girl i hurt me to know she was gone so early and had to suffer before she left i wish she could come back but she cant my prayers go out to her faimly and im glad that man killed himself i just feel he should have went through more pain than she did
this monster who did this should be shot dead he knew exactly what he wanted to do and planned it what the hell is wrong with people anymore well i shouldnt say people on his behalf he is truly a monster i cant even imagine what that little girl went through when this creep decided to use her as his sex slave then to kill her i would love to get on that drug called bath salt just for one day so i could eat this creeps face off and bite him up and spit him out.
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