Verdict Read In Plot to Kill Teen Girlfriend's Family

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A 23-year-old Detroit man was convicted Thursday of conspiring with his 15-year-old girlfriend to kill her family while they slept in their Plymouth Township home last October.

Michael Rivera was convicted in Wayne County Circuit Court on four counts of conspiracy to commit murder, one count of assault with intent to commit murder and one count of felonious assault, WDIV-TV reports.

Key evidence against Rivera was a series of text messages he exchanged with 15-year-old Roksana Sikorski, giving his young lover explicit instructions on where and how deeply to cut the throats of her family members. At one point, he sent her a picture.

“Okay babe,” Sikorski typed back, “I’ll try again.”

“OK Baby, I’m praying,” he replied.

Sikorski faltered and repeatedly begged Rivera to help her, but texting back that if the teen’s father awoke and saw him, “there will be a struggle n cops will come.”

“Babe,” she replied, “no cops will come. I busted the phone lines. Plz Babe.”

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Rivera remained outside the home in the shadows while Sikorski allegedly sliced her 12-year-old brother’s neck and attempted to stab her younger sister. She eventually gave up, and joined him outside, authorities allege.

Sikorski’s trial on the same charges is scheduled to begin Oct. 25. She is charged as an adult.

Her parents think their adopted daughter has been overcharged for her alleged role in the plot to kill them. This spring, they asked Wayne County officials move the charges against her to juvenile court, where she stands a greater chance of receiving psychological counseling.

She was abused as a child in Poland, they said, and suffers from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder as a result. That made her emotionally vulnerable to advances by Rivera, who seduced and sexually molested her after meeting on Facebook, the Sikorskis said.

However, Prosecutor Kym Worthy said at the time that the facts of the case warrant a trial in adult court.

“Bluntly, it is rare for this office to charge a 15-year-old as an adult. However, the alleged facts in this case strongly warrant this decision,” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a news release last October.