Posted on 07/02/2006 4:38:36 AM PDT by driftdiver
A seven-time convicted felon who sexually abused his girlfriends 13-year-old daughter, got her pregnant and took lewd photographs of her was sentenced to life in prison Friday.
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The jury of five men and seven women deliberated about 90 minutes Friday morning before convicting the lifetime criminal of aggravated sexual assault of a child and 11 counts of possession of child pornography.
The jury recommended that Witt be sentenced to life for the sexual assault, 60 years in prison for each of eight counts of child pornography that showed the girls breasts and 80 years in prison for each of three photos that showed the girls genitals.
The pornography counts stem from nude photographs Witt took of the girl during their six-month odyssey as transient thieves traveling through four states that began in late 2003, just weeks after Witt was released from prison.
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The girls mother, Rebecca Linton, met Witt while she was a secretary at an Oklahoma prison where he was serving time. She is serving a seven-year federal prison term for aiding and abetting the production of child pornography.
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Witts attorney, Russ Hunt Sr., asked jurors to find him not guilty because, despite Witts admissions that he had sex with the girl in four states and five major cities, prosecutors failed to prove he had sex with the girl in McLennan County.
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I feel sorry for Donnie because Donnie is just kind of a low-level criminal, and, unfortunately, he fell in love with a girl and didnt have enough sense to say, Hey, she is too young, Hunt said.
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There is a tiny Constittuional issue there, although it doesn't apply because at some of the connected crimes did occur in McLennan Country.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
"Do you know how long 68 years is?"
yeah, its not quite 70.
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Mothers like this are far more common than anyone wants to admit. Mine is spot on identical but met the perp at church instead of prison.
I was old enough to have moved away but other siblings were not so lucky. We found out later that over the course of several years he abused a sibling starting at 8 and onward. Mom found out and didn't report it and allowed it to continue.
In the end she lied on the perps behalf and got the crime to house arrest for the perp. During the fallout we still believed her and only later found out she saved him from what was according to the penal code of that state a capital offense ( though life would have been the sentence ).
and to think my wife only has to put up with my time spent in computer games and on fr.
I have sympathy for your situation and pray for your family. I know there are lots of screwed up families. Acceptance of that as the norm still isn't something I think is good though.
No matter how old he is when they let him out, he'd do it again. It's just not worth it.
Bye-bye, you stinking pervert
We lawyers, as a rule, usually get stinking drunk regardless of whether we have slimy clients or not!
Rape and murder are NOT the same. The ULTIMATE penalty absolutly MUST be for the ULTIMATE crime of murder.
i want you all to know that she is still my mother! none of you were there and NONE of you know what really went on! all you have to go by is what this article says. they don’t even know what really went on. ya’ll don’t know how scared of him my mom was. he said that he wanted to be my “daddy”. my mom wanted me to have a father figure! yeah i know that it was stupid but you can’t tell me that you don’t make mistakes! how dare you say this stuff about her!!!!! i know that ya’ll are just sayin what you think but you don’t know what all he said to her. he made her feel like she was crazy! yes she made mistakes but i still love her and she didn’t help him take those pictures. you wouldn’t understand anything! she’s my mom and i still need her. she was a good mom. she always gave me and my sisters what ever she could. she hardly EVER got new clothes b/c one of us always needed new clothes. i still need her. you don’t know how hard it is to grow up as a teenager w/o her. she won’t be at my graduation this year. she’s missed out on a lot of stuff and to me that is punishment enough. i don’t think that she shouldn’t have to register as a sex offender. i wish that she could just get out now.
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