MS-13 Member Sentenced For Assaulting Toddler, Attempted Murder

An MS-13 gang member who sexually assaulted a 2-year-old girl, and who then tried to kill her and two other women, was sentenced to decades in prison today.

Tommy Alvarado-Ventura, 33, also known as Montana, pleaded guilty on Feb. 13 to first-degree attempted murder, two counts of predatory sexual assault against a child, three counts of second-degree attempted murder, four counts of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree strangulation, and first-degree sex abuse.

Today, he was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison.

“This defendant sexually assaulted a helpless toddler and brutally stabbed and attempted to murder two women, including the child’s mother, in a horrific and unconscionable spree of violence,” said Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas. “The depravity of this defendant knows few parallels, and he should spend the rest of his life in prison for these despicable crimes.”

According to Singas, around 2:30 a.m. on March 22, 2017, Alvarado-Ventura tried to kill a woman outside the El Mariachi Loco Bar in Hempstead by stabbing and slashing her. The woman had tried to talk to Alvarado-Ventura about a disagreement, and he stabbed and slashed her in her back, thigh and hands. He then put the knife inside her mouth and slashed the corner of her face.

As Alvarado-Ventura was assaulting the woman, Singas said that another man, Antony Almendarez, stopped people from intervening to help her. The two men fled the bar when they realized people were calling police. The woman Alvarado-Ventura attacked suffered a collapsed lung, nerve damage to her fingers and permanent scarring.

After fleeing the scene and splitting up with Almendarez, Alvarado-Ventura went to his girlfriend's apartment in Hempstead, where he was supposed to watch her children while she worked. While he was there, he sexually assaulted his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter, beat her about the face and strangled her in an attempt to kill her.

When his girlfriend returned, Alvarado-Ventura tried to murder her as well by beating her and stabbing her in her arms, hands and neck.

Alvarado-Ventura was arrested at his girlfriend's home after police were called. All three women that he assaulted were taken to NYU Winthrop Hospital, where police were able to interview them and connect Alvarado-Ventura to all the attacks.

Almendarez pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree assault on April 5, 2018, and was sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in the bar attack.