He entered a plea agreement two years ago between the prosecution and defense that allowed a conviction without him having to admit guilt or explain his role in the crime, the Herald-Dispatch reports.
He was sentenced by Cabell County Judge Paul Farrell after the initial judge, Alfred E. Ferguson, rejected an earlier plea deal without prison.
'I'm just going to be blunt: I hope you screw up during those 50 years so I can send you to prison,' the judge told Adkins during sentencing.
'If you violate any of the terms and conditions in the next 50 years, then the court can send you to prison - and I'm hoping that's the case, because you should go to prison for what you did.'
The only explanation I can think of for the existence of this deal and the judge's acceptance thereof, is that the prosecution must have some really serious problems with its case against this guy. I can only speculate as to what those problems are, especially if a DNA test proves that the aborted child was his.
I figured as much.. He aborted the evidence.
F^&(&r
Vendome’s version of a just and proper punishment:
I would chain his hands and legs, then pull him up four flights of metal fire escape stairs, feet first.
Then I would kicked him in the family jewels just enough to cause a stomach ache every 15 minutes for 8 hours.
After that I would push him out a window letting him fall four stories into a pile of razor wire 5 rolls high and 5 rolls wide.
He could lay in the pile of razor wire for two days in the desert sun and then I would release a flock of crows and 1 gallon of scarabs right next to him
.But that’s just me.