Man to spend 27 years in prison for killing girlfriend
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CHARLOTTE -- A man accused of killing his girlfriend and mother of his 1-year-old daughter will spend more than 20 years in prison. On Thursday, 21-year-old Daniel John Jaworski agreed to a plea deal for killing Rochelle Woyee in east Charlotte in 2008.
Jaworski and Woyee were involved in an on-again-off-again relationship that, according to Woyee's family members, often turned violent.
"I told her, I said this boy's going to kill you," said Elizabeth Woyee, the victim's mother. "As her mother, I had an instinct."
In court Wednesday, Jaworski agreed to a plea deal that will send him to prison for at least 27 years. But for Woyee's family, that sentence wasn't enough.
"Because at the end of the day, we're still losing and my sister is not coming back to us," said Robin Woyee, the victim's sister. "He's in jail being fed three times a day and exercising and still breathing. It's not fair."
Robin Woyee says it's most unfair for little Jada, who she's been taking care of since her sister's death.
"The only mother she knows is me," she said.
Woyee's family says Rochelle had taken out three separate restraining orders on Jaworski but that he wouldn't leave her alone.
According to jail records, Jaworski was arrested and charged for assault on a woman twice: first in May 2007, and then again in August 2008. Both of those incidents were involving Woyee.