One Hispanic murders another over sexual abuse

A 17-year-old Hispanic strangled a family friend with a dog chain before dousing his body with lighter fluid and setting it on fire, he confessed to police. Marco Tulio Flores told police in Boston that he murdered 27-year-old Jaime Galdamez as punishment because he had sexually abused him throughout his childhood - and he wanted to make sure it didn't happen to anyone else, police say. He walked into a police station and turned himself in the day after officers found Galdamez's charred remains in his illegal basement flat. Flores duct-taped Galdamez's face and wrists, police said, then used a dog chain to strangle him. He soaked the victim's body in charcoal lighter fluid then stole a flat-screen television and two computers, he told prosecutors. He returned several hours later, leaned in through a window he'd left open and set the 27-year-old's body on fire before fleeing, police said. Two families with six children lived in the rooms above Galdamez, and all were at home when the fire started. Flores has been arraigned on charges of first-degree murder and arson.