Killer Gets 32 Years

Cesar Ascarrunz, who pleaded guilty last month in connection with the murder of his former girlfriend, Monica Lozada, and the abandonment of her 4-year-old daughter, Valery, in the middle of the night on a dark street in Middle Village, has been sentenced to 32 years in prison.
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said the defendant, Ascarrunz, 32, formerly of 111-17 66th Avenue in Forest Hills, murdered Monica Lozada, 26, placed her body in a black plastic garbage and left it on a Forest Hills street sometime between September 24 and 25, 2005. The body was later recovered in a Pennsylvania garbage dump. Ms. Lozada’s four-year-old child was abandoned, crying and alone, by the defendant on a darkened street in the Middle Village section of Queens.
Queens County Supreme Court Justice Robert J. Hanophy sentenced Ascarrunz to 25 years in prison on the manslaughter charge and a consecutive term of 2 1/3 to 7 years on the endangerment charge on Wednesday, March 15.
District Attorney Brown said, “Today’s sentencing of the defendant in the violent death of Monica Lozada and the abandonment of her 4-year-old daughter Valery brings finality to a case that captured the attention of people all across the country.”