Jordan van der Sloot, Plead guilty this is newswires around the world are abuzz Wednesday in the 2010 slaying of Peruvian Business student Stephany Flores. Dutch native, who is equally known for his longtime association of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway on 2005, now three-judge panel has to decide for his fate.
When Judge Victoria Montoya asked at the start of the trial if he was guilty, In the firm voice van der Sloot answered "yes" The 23-year-old Dutchman said "I want to give a sincere confession, I am truly regretful for what I have done. I feel very bad."
Van der Sloot's defense attorney says his client is also an victim after van der Sloot brief statement,
"I would like to say very sincerely ... my client, Joran van der Sloot, [on] May 30 of 2010 was 21 years old. He was in fact persecuted," Jimenez said. "He was faced against the entire world the last five years ... because of an occurrence he never actually committed and there is no existing evidence. I refer to an American citizen missing in Aruba ... added to the recent death of his father. This is all part of the baggage my client carried with him that morning that affected him in a negative order."
Joran van der Sloot, enters the courtroom for the start of his murder trial at the San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 6, 2012. He is 24 yrs old, stands trial Friday for the 2010 murder of the 21-year-old Stephany Flores, of Peru, nearly seven years after he became the prime suspect in the unsolved disappearance of an American teenager on holiday in Aruba.
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