Background: Mia Maro (GoFundMe). Inset: Mohammed Almaru (Illinois Dept. of Corrections).
The Illinois father who confessed that he “lost his mind” and beat his teenage daughter to death — apparently over her wanting to go to prom — will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Mohammed Almaru, 44, was sentenced Thursday to 55 years in prison for killing his 17-year-old daughter Mia Maro inside their home in May 2022. A jury convicted him in August of first-degree murder after about an hour of deliberations, according to a local Patch report.
On May 1, 2022, Mia’s aunt found the girl’s body in the family’s Tinley Park home. She was covered in bruises, and prosecutors said Almaru attacked her with a rubber mallet, later discovered in the garage, as well as a bloodied and bent metal pole found on the kitchen floor.
Almaru was found near his daughter with self-inflicted wounds after ingesting pills in an apparent suicide attempt.
He confessed to the crime in a text to a family member, local Fox affiliate WFLD reported.
