{"id":45767,"date":"2016-02-22T15:17:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=45767"},"modified":"2016-02-22T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:17:41","slug":"man-sentenced-to-life-for-killing-daughter-girls-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=45767","title":{"rendered":"Man Sentenced To Life For Killing Daughter, Girl\u2019s Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man Sentenced To Life For Killing Daughter, Girl\u2019s Mother<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Bartow man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his 3-year-old daughter and her mother.<\/p>\n<p>A judge in Polk County sentenced 38-year-old <strong>Lester Ross<\/strong> Thursday. He was convicted in November of first-degree murder and aggravated manslaughter. He was looking at a possible death sentence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Authorities found the bodies of <strong>Ross\u2019<\/strong> daughter <strong>Masaraha Ross<\/strong>, and the girls\u2019 mother, <strong>Ronkeya Holmes<\/strong>, buried in a grove in Winter Haven in December 2010. <strong>Ross<\/strong> was arrested two years later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ross\u2019<\/strong> ex-wife, <strong>Sharon Evans<\/strong>, testified she drove <strong>Ross<\/strong> to bury the bodies in 2009 because she feared her husband would kill her if she talked to police.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-45769 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ronkeya-Holmes.jpg\" alt=\"Ronkeya Holmes\" width=\"129\" height=\"161\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-45768\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Masaraha-Ross.jpg\" alt=\"Masaraha Ross\" width=\"133\" height=\"166\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-45769 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ronkeya-Holmes.jpg\" alt=\"Ronkeya Holmes\" width=\"129\" height=\"161\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Man Sentenced To Life For Killing Daughter, Girl\u2019s Mother \u00a0 A Bartow man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his 3-year-old daughter and her mother. A judge in Polk County sentenced 38-year-old Lester Ross Thursday. He was convicted in November of first-degree murder and aggravated manslaughter. He was looking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}