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An Aurora man has been sentenced to 38 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering his mother, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office said on Wednesday.

According to information presented in court by Kane County First Assistant State’s Attorney Christine Bayer, Abel Quinones-Herstad, 23, stabbed his mother, Edith Gonzalez-Alarcon, 55, multiple times with a knife on July 14, 2022, causing her death, a news release from the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office said.

Quinones-Herstand then traveled to his brother’s home in Wisconsin, stating that he had done something bad to their mother and couldn’t go back, according to the release.

The Aurora Police Department was contacted for a welfare check at Gonzalez-Alarcon’s home on the fir

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