For nearly 25 years, a Springfield man has asked for parole. But this year, pleas came from the daughter who never called him “dad” — a survivor born of violence, going before the parole board to make sure he remains behind bars.
“You took away so much from me. I have no father. I have no male guidance. It has been so hard. But I am strong,” Sonia Cruz said on May 13, sitting next to her mother — one of the children Hector Gonzalez raped and impregnated before killing their mother.
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