Posted on 10/17/2005 11:25:32 AM PDT by freespirited
A repeat sexual offender who struck again just four months after being released from confinement, was sentenced yesterday to serve 20 years for his most recent offense, this time against a 12-year-old girl.
Lorenzo Townes, 49, pleaded guilty to forcible sodomy, abduction with intent to defile and breaking and entering in the July 11 incident. He admitted to police that he crept into the girl's home, threw her onto a bed and sexually assaulted her.
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Snukals sentenced him to 50 years in prison for each charge, but suspended 30 years of the sodomy sentence, 45 years of the abduction sentence and 48 years of the breaking and entering sentence. He will serve the sentences concurrently, and will be on supervised probation for the rest of his life after he's released.
Townes, a registered sex offender, was first found guilty of a sex crime in 1973. He was convicted in Campbell County of raping a 10-year-old girl and sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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While in prison, he attacked two female prison employees. In 1974, he was convicted of attempting to rape a female nurse. Then, in 1988, he was convicted of abduction with intent to inflict bodily injury on a state penitentiary worker. He had grabbed the worker by the throat and beat her face, breaking her jaw, according to court records.
In 2003, Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore's office classified Townes and 40 other Virginians as violent sexual predators. Under a new law, Townes was civilly committed urt to the Department of Mental Health facility for rehabilitation.
Townes appealed the court's decision, and in March, the Virginia Supreme Court ordered him released because his case didn't meet the law's requirement that he be in prison serving time for a sexual crime at the time of his commitment.
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... probably just in time for Christmas.
These animals don't deserve to live and be warehoused at a cost of $60,000+/year!!!
outrageous!!!
this is exaclty why we need to rid our country of idiot liberal judges
What's the price of a .45 caliber bullet these days?
The judge had the means at his disposal to put this man away until he died, but obviously he thought this animal's rights were more important than the ruined life of a girl. Why didn't women's lib accomplish something more important than sexual license and the destruction of the family? This judge should be impeached.
Exactly. When judges are so lenient towards an obvious scumbag like this (and a danger to society) makes me wonder if the judge might have the same proclivities as the offender.
ZIP! Donations would FLOOD in............
He will be 76 years old when he gets out, if not sooner, and will still be a threat no matter if they track him or not.
Congressman Billybob
If justice had been done in the first place, this animal would have been hanged for that crime and he wouldn't have been around to attack the next 5 people.
Don;t worry about the money. They will be out before you know it.
The Supreme Court has ruled that no one may be executed, who has not committed murder.
You may or may not disagree with that decision, but for now it's the law.
A good jacketed hollow point 185 grain bullet costs about 95 cents each.
And one would be enough, right?
Poor guy, keeps making all those mistakes. Hope he can be rehabilitated.
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