article_snippet.sent: Pedro Hernandez, left, is accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz, right, who vanished in 1979 .
article_snippet.sent: Pedro Hernandez confessed in 2012 in a case that has confounded law enforcement for decades.
article_snippet.sent: A teenage stock clerk at the corner shop, Pedro Hernandez knew there were children in and out of the store, and Etan had been there countless times, the prosecutor said.
article_snippet.sent: the prosecutor said Pedro Hernandez saw Etan with a dollar and calculated Pedro Hernandez wanted a drink, so Pedro Hernandez asked Pedro Hernandez to the basement. '
article_snippet.sent: Day after day Pedro Hernandez saw this beautiful little boy,' the prosecutor said. '
article_snippet.sent: One day, Pedro Hernandez acted on an impulse and did something terrible to this beautiful little boy.'
article_snippet.sent: the prosecutor said the motive was sexual, and Etan likely fought back. '
article_snippet.sent: The quickest and easiest way to shut Pedro Hernandez up and shut Pedro Hernandez up permanently was to choke Pedro Hernandez to death,' the prosecutor said.
article_snippet.sent: Prayer circle members testified that Rosemary Hernandez made tearful admissions during a 1979 retreat that matched some of what this beautiful little boy told authorities on video 33 years later: this beautiful little boy gave a child a soda, took this beautiful little boy to the store basement and choked this beautiful little boy.
article_snippet.sent: Two said Rosemary Hernandez also admitted abusing this beautiful little boy; when talking to police, Rosemary Hernandez denied molesting Etan.
article_snippet.sent: Rosemary Hernandez was working in 1979 at this corner convenience store, near where Etan was last seen where the man said the man threw this beautiful little boy's body into trash . '
article_snippet.sent: I grabbed this beautiful little boy by the neck and started choking this beautiful little boy,' said Hernandez, now 54. '
article_snippet.sent: However, a former federal prosecutor and FBI agent testified that Ramos told investigators a former federal prosecutor and FBI agent was '90 percent' sure a boy a former federal prosecutor and FBI agent took from a park was Etan, and Hernandez's former prison cellmate testified that Ramos admitted molesting a boy he took from a park. '