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"Teen with 47 IQ gets 100 years in sex abuse case"

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader forwarded to me this article with the headline that appears in the title to this post.  Here are the particulars:A teenager who has profound mental disabilities was sentenced to 100 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges in a sex abuse case involving his 6-year-old neighbor.Aaron Hart, 18, of Paris, was arrested and charged after a neighbor found him fondling her stepson in September. The teen pleaded guilty to five counts, including aggravated sexual assault and indecency by contact, and a jury decided his punishment.Lamar County Judge Eric Clifford decided to stack the sentences against Hart after jurors settled on two five-year terms and three 30-year terms, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday. The judge said neither he nor jurors liked the idea of prison for Hart but they felt there was no other option.continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 11, 2009 (boomark / email).