Provo • When Christopher Poulson killed his girlfriend and her young child, he took away more than the lives of 23-year-old Emily Quijano and her 3-year-old son, Gabriel Almiron.
He took away their potential, Quijano’s family tearfully told a judge during Poulsen’s sentencing Thursday.
He stole their family’s chance to see Quijano graduate from massage therapy school, to move to California to follow her dreams and to record a music project with her father and her sister.
Poulson took from them a little boy whose personality was just starting to shine through, who would never grow up to be a teenager or get married or have a family of his own.