Posted on 04/20/2023 3:11:38 PM PDT by grundle
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas teenager pleaded guilty as an adult Wednesday to felony charges that a prosecutor said could get him decades in prison for attacking a high school teacher and leaving her unconscious in a classroom a year ago.
The incident, which included allegations of sexual assault, left the teacher hospitalized with multiple injuries and focused attention on a sharp rise in violence at the time in the sprawling Clark County School District, the nation’s fifth-largest.
The Associated Press is not naming the defendant due to his age. Now 17, he pleaded guilty to attempted murder, attempted sexual assault and battery with a deadly weapon causing substantial bodily harm. His pleas avoided trial in Clark County District Court.
Public defenders who represented the boy did not immediately respond to email messages form AP.
The prosecutor, Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney William Rowles, confirmed the plea agreement. He told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he intends to seek the maximum sentence of 55 years in prison at sentencing June 5.
Las Vegas police said the boy went to the teacher to talk about his grades before punching and choking her into unconsciousness and fleeing the classroom at Eldorado High School, a campus serving about 2,000 students. Another school employee found the teacher and summoned police and medical help.
The teacher later told investigators the teen approached her as she sat at her desk and choked her from behind with a rope or cord before pulling a bookcase and filing cabinet down upon her.
“I don’t know why I attacked her, she was good to me,” a police arrest report quoted the student telling detectives.
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He can’t even give a reason for the attack. 55 years sounds about right.
Ass. Press is declining to name the teen because of his age? Yet he was convicted as an adult?
No matter. The fact they identified him as a teen is all we really need to know.
Easy enough to go outside the Ass. Press to find the name.
Jonathan Martinez Garcia
So. A teen of a different race. Whatev.
If 55 year sentence is on the table, don’t know why he wouldn’t then just roll the dice and take his chances at trial in hopes of having one or more idiots on the jury? He didn’t kill his victim so death penalty wasn’t a concern and he probably wouldn’t have gotten worse than 55 years so even with a public defender he had a fair chance at a better outcome at trial. Maybe he is that rare person who admits his guilt and is truly sorry for his actions and didn’t want to have to put the victim and families through a trial?
He is a sociopath. His admissions of guilt or regret mean nothing. Incarcerating him will save someone’s live later on.
If a 16 YO doesn’t know it’s wrong to kill someone, that person never will.
He pleaded guilty as an adult, so why can’t his picture be posted?
The non-description of the perp IS the description of the perp. I’m going out on a limb here and guess it’s Jaquarious or something.
Better stock up on Vaseline or K-Y Jelly Personal Lubricant...
Better figure on one tube per day...
55 X 360 = 19,600 tubes should do it...
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