CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : STOCKTON : Girl Sentenced in Her Father’s Murder

A 13-year-old girl convicted of soliciting the murder of her father was sentenced to 15 years to life in custody. Michelle Say was turned over to the California Youth Authority. She was accused of letting two former boyfriends into her Manteca home before she went to her seventh-grade classes the morning of her father’s murder last March. Ronnie Edward Say, 47, was choked, stabbed and beaten on the head with a fireplace poker when he returned home. The recently divorced Say had moved with his daughter from the Bay Area to the San Joaquin Valley in an attempt to escape urban crime, a sister said. Berto Talaveras, 15, and Juan Valdez, 13, were convicted of murder and turned over to the Youth Authority for their 15-year-to-life sentences.