Posted on 07/06/2018 10:32:08 AM PDT by simpson96
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago-area man who was the alleged ringleader in the beating of a mentally disabled teenager that was livestreamed on Facebook has pleaded guilty to a hate crime and sentenced to eight years in prison.
The Chicago Tribune reports 20-year-old Jordan Hill of Carpentersville became the third of the four defendants to admit taking part in the attack when he entered the plea in a Cook County courtroom Thursday. He also pleaded guilty to aggravated kidnapping.
The January 2017 incident received national attention because it involved a white victim and four African-Americans who taunted the bound-and-gagged teen with profanities against white people.
Prosecutors say Hill - a friend of the 18-year-old victim - took the teen to a Chicago apartment where the attack took place.
Prosecutors said the alleged actions began under the guise of a sleepover with one Hill on New Year's Eve. His family became concerned when they lost contact two days later. According to prosecutors, Hill beat the victim in a van and brought him to an apartment on Chicago's West Side when the torment continued.
"A male shoves the victim's face into a toilet bowl and the victim is told to drink toilet water. The victim is punched in the head. The victim is screaming 'no' in fear when the male walks over to him with a knife and states, 'Should I shank his a**?' Also heard on the video multiple times is a male voice threatening to kill the victim," said Asst. State's Attorney Erin Antonietti.
Police said his beating and torture went on for hours. The disturbing video, which was viewed by people across the country, has been removed from Facebook.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...
No info on what happened to the other 3 cretins?
Four for sterilization, please!
The Case of the Four Teen Thugs.
What happens on the internet STAYS on the internet.
These punks will be reminded of their cruelty and their crimes as the years go by. Put THAT on your resume!
They were “just turning their lives around”
8 years?
And if the racial roles had been reversed?
Whitey would be looking at life in prison.
Ain’t White Privilege Grand?
Sterilization? Too easy... I vote death. They deserve no mercy.
60 years ago, that’s exactly what would have happened.
Thanks to evil liberalism, the bar got lowered and these demons will walk to do more evil eventually again.
Broke my heart. Hope the kid has recovered.
And if the racial roles had been reversed?
Whitey would be looking at life in prison.
Ain’t White Privilege Grand?
Lynndie England got three years for Abu Ghraib.
But with my approach they won't be reproducing, ummm, any more than they already have.
An arrogant foursome, eh?
“An arrogant foursome, eh?”
My thoughts too - especially the guys. They look they really don’t care what they did.
Imagine if it were 4 whites who beat a mentally disabled black teen....They would have put it on the cover of Time Magazine.
They wouldn’t be able to reproduce with a noose either.
I was nauseated when the media was defending these vile pieces of scum after what they did.
I find it unlikely any thugs will be filling out a resume...ever.
Savages.
From another source:
Two of his co-defendants, sisters Brittany and Tanishia Covington, had previously agreed to plea deals, with Brittany receiving a probation-only sentence, and Tanishia, a three-year prison term. A lawyer for Cooper said Thursday that he was considering a plea deal.
IIRC, Under Federal Law kidnapping with bodily harm is subject to a life sentence. But then Sessions would have to come out of his self imposed coma if federal charges were to be brought.
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