"I'm here to talk about the impact on our lives by the senseless slaughter of two innocent people by a man, and I'm hesitant to use the word, man."

Mrs. Schwarz started by thanking DDA Elan Firpo, the jurors, the Judge and even the public defenders for their hard work. She said on May 18, the lives of the Marcet and Schwarz families were changed forever and she included the August family, because Rhett August was almost killed by Tree.

"I'm here to talk about the impact on our lives by the senseless slaughter of two innocent people by a man, and I'm hesitant to use the word, man." She went on to say  a man takes responsibility for his actions." Instead of man, she said she should refer to Tree as a, "selfish, self absorbed monster."

Mrs. Schwarz said Tree had "no emotion, no compassion, no feeling for anyone but himself. To have to be in the same room and to look at the monster who killed our innocent child, who stalked and groped other younger girls?"

"Sunshine and Christina don't have a second chance and neither should he." She then mentioned that he was let out of realignment.

"Christina was our special gift from God? How dare you play God?"

Throughout her statement, she turned and spoke to Tree, who had his back to the speakers all the time with his classic , "I don't give a ___" stare,

At this point, she said, "Not guilty implies innocence. You are from innocent. What other devastation have you wrought that we do not know about?"

"A man takes responsibility for his actions, you pulled the trigger many times, you ran, you hide in the bushes, you lied."

"Today, I am not here to spread hate, life is a journey and it is about love."

At this point, she asked him to look at her, "Can you look at me?" he didn't. She said, "May God have mercy on your soul."

Even amidst her grief, which she has not expressed until today, she said to Bodhi Tree, "I pray that someone helps you in prison and gives you the opportunity for salvation."

"We will continue to live because she lives in us."