Posted on 12/09/2007 2:26:53 PM PST by kellynla
A judge on Friday gave three consecutive life sentences to a man convicted of dragging a 10-year-old girl into the woods, choking her, and then raping her.
A day earlier, a jury had found Antonio Rosales, 41, a homeless man who was living in those woods, guilty of child rape, kidnapping and attempted first-degree murder.
Because of the girl's age, the rape charge carries a mandatory life sentence, but Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson stacked on two additional ones. She did not explain her thinking during the three-minute hearing, which had originally been set for next week.
There was little discussion at the hearing. The victim, now 15, was there with her family. She did not say anything to the judge.
Neither did Rosales, who sat quietly behind the defense table, the same one he knocked over during an angry outburst two days earlier.
The victim testified Tuesday that her attacker dragged her into the woods in Casselberry about dusk Nov. 1, 2003, as she was on her way to the grocery store on her brother's push-scooter. The man choked her until she lost consciousness, she said.
Rosales confessed to authorities a week later, saying he had pulled down the girl's pants and touched her. He also confessed to an unrelated crime -- killing an elderly woman in Arizona.
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Good news : except that it means we have to provide this verminous foreign intruder with three hots and a cot for the rest of his miserable life.
Good news : except that it means we have to provide this verminous foreign intruder with three hots and a cot for the rest of his miserable life.
Cut off his unit, insert it into his mouth, sew his lips
shut and let him starve to death.
Oh no...You have it all wrong...Child rapists ARE very popular in prison...
Its better that way...
Good point. Sometimes the courts just don’t do the job. Some people have to die to protect the public. (If that was my ten-year-old daughter, he’d be dead by now, but that’s another issue.)
Well when Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom fame went to the pokey...There was an effort (tongue in cheek) to raise some money and personally hire someone in that prison to keep Bernie warm at night...hehehe
My wife was a product of the WorldCom bust...Made Enron look like chicken feed...
So I figure what goes around comes around...
Unnngh. My husband was laid off from Cisco Systems as a side effect of the WorldCom crash. He was unemployed for more than a year, and we had six children at the time. It turned out for the best, actually.
Ebbers was a sociopath.
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