July 8 (UPI) -- A New York woman has been indicted for murder and a rare charge of torture in connection to the September death of her romantic partner, Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Roach announced Monday.
Kenya Tilford, 41, was arraigned July 2 before a New York state Supreme Court justice after being charged in an 18-count indictment by a Westchester Grand Jury.
She is accused of torturing her partner, 27-year-old Concetta Morton, for three months before strangling her to death and then stashing her body in a storage bin at her Franklin Avenue apartment.
While little was revealed about the crime, Roach accused Tilford in a statement emailed to UPI on Monday of "acting in an especially cruel manner and inflicting torture upon Ms. Morton before her death."
Roach said it was the first-ever torture charge by the Westchester County District Attorney's Office.
