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Man finally convicted for throwing his daughter off a cliff
Mother's tears of joy after her ex is finally convicted of throwing their daughter, 4, off a cliff 15 years ago because he didn't want to pay $1,000-a-month child support
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- Sarah Key-Marer breathed heavily and began crying in the gallery after her ex was convicted on Wednesday of first-degree murder
- Cameron Brown, 53, killed his 4-year-old daughter by tossing off a sea cliff nearly 15 years ago
- Jurors heard how he had wanted to avoid having to pay child support to the mother of Lauren Sarene Key
- Two previous juries had remained deadlocked over whether Brown was guilty of murder or manslaughter
- He will be sentenced next month and is facing a mandatory term of life in prison without parole
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Lauren Sarene Key died in November 2000 after Brown hurled her off a 120-foot cliff in Rancho Palos Verdes, California
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A father was convicted on Wednesday of first-degree murder for tossing his 4-year-old daughter off a sea cliff nearly 15 years ago to get revenge against the girl's mother and avoid custody payments.
Cameron Brown showed no emotion as the verdict in the long-running case was read in Los Angeles Superior Court, while the mother of Lauren Sarene Key breathed heavily and began crying in the gallery.
Two previous juries have deadlocked over whether Brown was guilty of murder or manslaughter.
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[B]Cameron Brown, left, showed no emotion as he was convicted on Wednesday of first-degree murder for tossing his 4-year-old daughter off a sea cliff nearly 15 years ago
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Brown, 53, faces a mandatory term of life in prison without parole when sentenced June 19 for the murder and special circumstances that he lay in wait and killed the girl for financial gain.
'Judge, I'm innocent, I have no comment,' Brown said when asked about the sentencing date.
Key-Marer said she was in shock from the verdict.
'All I ever wanted was that he would take responsibility for what happened that day,' she said. 'It's all been really hard. The pain. We just learned to live with the pain.'
After the verdict was read, she rushed out to the hallway, hugging jurors.
Brown, an airline baggage handler at the time, hurled the girl off the 120-foot cliff in November 2000 because he never wanted the child and was locked in a bitter dispute with her mother over child support and custody, prosecutors said.
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Justice at last: Sarah Key-Marer, left, mother of 4-year-old Lauren Sarene Key, who was slain in 2000, reacts with her best friend Annette Watling, right, after Cameron John Brown heard a guilty verdict on Wednesday
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3a7HSjbpw
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