73yr old burned Lesbian's trailer home - he ‘despised’ them
Convicted sex offender, 73, 'burned down couple's trailer home where eight children slept because he despised his lesbian neighbors'
Hate crime: Convicted sex offender Braulio Valenzuela-Villanueva, 73, is accused of setting fire to a Florida mobile home because he hated the lesbian coupe who lived there and believed they didn't deserve to have their eight children
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According to police, a video camera captured the elderly suspect walking up to the victims’ cramped one-bedroom trailer just before 4.30am Saturday and setting fire to a mattress propped against the wall.
Flames quickly engulfed the mattress and began to burn the mobile home where two women and eight children between the ages of 3 and 18 slept, Miami Herald reported.
The dwelling at 2260 Northwest 27th Avenue was not equipped with a fire alarm, so it wasn't until a neighbor noticed the blaze and awakened the family that they were able to escape.
According to the police report, Valenzuela-Villanueva calmly observed his neighbors' home being consumed by the inferno and had to be convinced by another resident to lend a hand in extinguishing the flames with a garden hose, reported
Lucky to be alive: Norma Fonseca (third from right) with her sons and her partner Latania Dansey (middle) photographed on Wednesday, just days after surviving the arson fire