Shocking courtroom words of predator Christopher Clements who snatched girl, 6, from her bedroom as she slept before murdering her, as he is sentenced to spend rest of his life in prison [Video]

16:06 EDT 13 Apr 2024 , updated 16:10 EDT 13 Apr 2024

Courtroom footage captured the moment a sick predator, who murdered a six-year-old girl, launched an unhinged rant as he was sentenced to life in jail. 

Christopher Clements, 42, was convicted of murdering Isabel Celis in 2012 after snatching her from her parents’ bedroom. 

He had previously been convicted of murdering 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez, whose remains were found in the same Arizona desert as Celis.

At Pima County Superior Court on Wednesday he read a rambling and confused statement, branding his conviction a ‘Stalin show trial of the Soviet era’ and ‘Hitler’s fascist government’.

‘I still maintain my innocence,’ he said. ‘It’s inconceivable how any person with even a semblance of pragmatism or objectivity could call what just happened a fair trial.’