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October 28, 2002

TEEN KILLER SAYS SHE'S SORRY NOW

By WILLIAM J. GORTA

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UNHEALED WOUNDS:

Code Ndao (above) holds a picture of brother Elhadji Gaye, slain by Marta

Casiano, then 13, in 1997.

- NYP: Don Halasy

October 28, 2002 -- Marta Casiano, a killer at 13, no longer bristles with

the attitude she showed when she matter-of-factly told cops she robbed and

shot a cabdriver in East Harlem, killing him.

Her personality shift can't erase the events of Nov. 14, 1997, when she

fired one shot from her 100-round Calico pistol into the back of Elhadji

Gaye, an immigrant from Guyana, but, she told The Post, she's changed.

" That's not me; that's horrible, " she said of the sullen thug in her

videotaped confession.

" I feel bad for what I did; I dream of it every night. " Yo, if I could do

everything over again, that never would have happened. "

Casiano is due in court tomorrow to be tried a third time for the slaying.

She faces life in prison if convicted.

Her two previous trials for the slaying ended in hung juries, despite the

damning videotaped confession.

But her lawyer, Sears, was able to convince some jurors to look beyond

the tape and see what he says put Casiano on the path of violence.

That allegedly includes a tortured childhood of severe sexual abuse and rape

by her dad.

Also, according to Sears, she was a victim of forced drug ingestion,

psychiatric treatments and a succession of foster homes in which she was

abused or ignored.

But Code Ndao, Gaye's brother, said his family is recovering from the

killing, " but you never forget about it. "

" I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of

tyranny over the mind of man. "

Jefferson

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