Shocking courtroom words of predator Christopher Clements who snatched girl, 6, ... trends now
Courtroom footage captured the moment a sick predator, who murdered a six-year-old girl, launched an unhinged rant as he was sentenced to life in jail.
Christopher Clements, 42, was convicted of murdering Isabel Celis in 2012 after snatching her from her parents' bedroom.
He had previously been convicted of murdering 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez, whose remains were found in the same Arizona desert as Celis.
At Pima County Superior Court on Wednesday he read a rambling and confused statement, branding his conviction a 'Stalin show trial of the Soviet era' and 'Hitler's fascist government'.
'I still maintain my innocence,' he said. 'It's inconceivable how any person with even a semblance of pragmatism or objectivity could call what just happened a fair trial.'
Isabel Celis, 6, vanished from her parents' home in 2012, before her remains were later found in the Arizona desert
Christopher Clements was convicted of murder in February. He was already serving a life sentence for a separate killing
At his sentencing hearing on Wednesday, Clements launched into a rambling rant where he compared his conviction to a 'Stalin show trial of the Soviet era' and 'Hitler's fascist government'
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Celis' father told the court: 'Until the day I die, I will feel responsible for not doing my job and protecting my little girl from the evil that lurked outside her window.'
Clements became a suspect in the case five years after Celis vanished when he told FBI agents he could lead them to her remains in exchange for charges in another case being dropped.
He was arrested in 2018 over the deaths of Celis and Gonzalez, and sentenced to serve the remainder of his life behind bars for the latter murder in 2022.
Using long-winded and often nonsensical phrases in his five-minute-long sentencing statement on Wednesday, Clements slammed his trial as unjust, particularly taking aim at Pima County Superior Court Judge James Marner.
'Using Joseph Stalin's show trials of the Soviet era to try and illustrate that the trials of the United States nomenclature as being diametric of the iniquitous nature of those carried out at the behest of the late Russian dictator,' he said.
Directing his remarks at the judge, he continued: 'I'm not sure if you were simply repeating some platitude that you gleaned from law school or the History Channel in an effort to embellish the very (unintelligible) of your court.
'Or if you were operating a passive acknowledgement of the proceedings
