Posted on 06/17/2009 11:23:32 PM PDT by Gil4
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Former major league outfielder Mel Hall was sentenced to 45 years in prison Wednesday after being convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl he coached on an elite basketball team. Hall was convicted on three counts of aggravated sexual assault and two counts of indecency with a child. Among his accusers during sentencing Wednesday were others who said he carried on inappropriate relationships with them.
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There are no winners here, that’s for sure. Still it sounds like justice is being served. I hope it doesn’t sound glib to say this because I don’t mean it that way, but I am glad he was never a Cardinal.
The creep tried to hit for the cycle, before her cycle even started.
Lock him in a cage for 450 years, not 45 years.
Shucks......Just another overreaching Obama supporter.
“For all the good this man has done in his life, it seems like this was an excessive verdict,” defense attorney Brady Wyatt said after the verdict.
Does that mean that at some point of doing good things, his lawyer believes it will offset raping a 12 year old child? Yikes.
Long time Cub fan and will always remember those comments from Hall after hearing of the trade for Sutcliff, I think back in '84. Traded him and Joe Carter
Sad to hear these charges are true and of his conviction.
She helped the Black Panthers brotha's and she helped Kevin Johnson, but she isn't touching this with a 10' pole!
You're SOL buddy!!
She’s too old for him.
Now, Malia and Sasha are right up his alley.
Speaking of right up his alley, I’ve heard ‘short eyes’ get special attention in prison.
IMO, raping a child is a crime that is worthy of the death penalty....too bad the Supreme Court has ruled otherwise.
Although that's a tempting prospect it's very unwise to do that because then the molester has a strong motive to murder the molestee to shut him/her up.
Same for kidnapping; the death penalty also funds many trial lawyers.
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