A woman in Florida who stuffed her boyfriend into a suitcase and left him to suffocate, allegedly during a game of “hide and seek,” has been sentenced to life in prison. Sarah Boone, 47, was charged in the 2020 death of Jorge Torres, 42.

During the trial, Boone insisted that she had been the victim of domestic violence at the hands of Torres and that she had rejected a plea deal offering her a reduced sentence of 15 years for manslaughter.

Boone told the court she was abused by Torres for many years and asked for forgiveness for her actions.

“I forgive myself for falling in love with a monster. I tried to break the spell… I never stopped loving him. I didn’t want this to happen. Forgive me Jorge. Forgive me, Torres family,” she said.

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Deadly hide and seek game

Boone called for help after finding Torres unconscious. He told police she and Torres had been drinking heavily the night before and playing hide and seek at their Florida home when they thought it would be funny for Torres, who weighed 100 pounds, to climb into a suitcase and hides there.

After putting him in the suitcase, she recorded videos of him where he can be heard screaming that he was unable to breathe and screaming her name. “Yeah, that’s what you do when you choke me. Oh, that’s what I feel when you cheat on me,” he can be heard saying in one of the videos while telling him to shut up.

During her trial, Boone testified that because of past violent incidents, she believed Torres would harm her and she acted in self-defense by keeping him in the suitcase.

Boone said she was too drunk and decided to fall asleep after thinking Torres might get out of the suitcase on his own. When she woke up the next morning, she did not find Torres but remembered him being in the suitcase. She opened the zipper of the suitcase and found him unconscious.

“Deserves to rot in prison”

She was charged with second-degree murder after police found videos on her phone in which Torres is heard screaming from inside the suitcase. “She decided to keep (Torres) in the suitcase when he said he couldn’t breathe in it to terrorize him. She then hit him with a baseball bat,” prosecutors said.

“Sarah deserves to languish in prison. Sarah caused a lifetime of pain,” Torres’ sister said.

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