13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

[asrabbit91]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

If I was sentenced to 60 years of prision, I would commit suicuide, you will never be able to get a job, and will always be looked at bad, he should of got 20 at tops, maybe he just was experiementing I know that's messed up, but maybe noone would let him experiement with him his age, and that was the easiest, but that is still wrong, just sad to see a kid that young life wasted.

[P2K]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

If I was sentenced to 60 years of prision, I would commit suicuide, you will never be able to get a job, and will always be looked at bad, he should of got 20 at tops, maybe he just was experiementing I know that's messed up, but maybe noone would let him experiement with him his age, and that was the easiest, but that is still wrong, just sad to see a kid that young life wasted.

Experimenting.



**sighs**

[asrabbit91]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

Was being sarcastic, but i'm sure the kid has problems, and was a loner.

[Blzer]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

Imagine how weird it would be... you're gone for sixty years, and when you're finally free, you take your first look outside and go "WTF!" at all of the futuristic advancements our world will have taken.

[Cebby]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

Some of you guys are being a little silly.

1. There is a 0% chance he'll be in around other inmates for the next 5 years. If this sentence is carried out fully, he'll be in protective custody for years. The prison officials know they can't have a 13 year old get killed.

2. There's probably a 90% chance this guy gets his sentenced lowered quite a bit.

[Moses Shuttlesworth]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

They should've hung him, but I'll take 60.

hanged*

and wow that is absolutely ridiculous....6 years old. i think the michael jackson disease might be contagious.

[Flightwhite24]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

Some of you guys are being a little silly.

1. There is a 0% chance he'll be in around other inmates for the next 5 years. If this sentence is carried out fully, he'll be in protective custody for years. The prison officials know they can't have a 13 year old get killed.

2. There's probably a 90% chance this guy gets his sentenced lowered quite a bit.

Good post. Something/somehow went wrong in this childs life, which he still is regardless of the horrific crime he commited. This kid will never spend this much time. No doubt this will be overturned at some point IMO. I could be wrong.

[Lintyfresh85]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

no way it will be overturned... that means he walks free. I promise you this kid does SOME time....

Like I said earlier... punishment fits the crime.

[Flightwhite24]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

no way it will be overturned... that means he walks free. I promise you this kid does SOME time....

Like I said earlier... punishment fits the crime.

I not saying he should not do any time, he deserves confinement, I just don't agree with 60 years. What this kid did is totally weird/crazy. He needs major help/confinement. I just think he won't end up with 60 years after appeals and all that I am sure will be forthcoming.

[Jistic]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

The good news is that this will most likely stop many future crimes from being committed. Some people just aren't right. This guy sounds like he's got serial killer potential. I got no problem with the sentence.

One other thing though that is troubling.

The girl's babysitter had dropped her off in front of her home on Rhea Street in Spanish Lake.

WTF? You don't "drop off" a 6 year old in front of your house. Some of the responsibility falls on the baby sitter. Thats just negligence.

[Cebby]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

no way it will be overturned... that means he walks free. I promise you this kid does SOME time....

Like I said earlier... punishment fits the crime.

The sentence won't be overturned, but I would bet that he'll end up serving the 60 years concurrently and do 16-18 years in prison instead of 60.

[Birdsonbat]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

Yeah, that article does not really go into enough detail. She didn't just have a few bruises.

Teen gets 60 years for attack on girl
By William C. Lhotka
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/16/2007

St. Louis County — A child beaten nearly to death in a 2005 sexual assault in Spanish Lake asked a judge to send the teen who did it to prison for 60 years.

That's exactly what Circuit Judge Melvyn W. Wiesman did Thursday, ordering consecutive terms that add up to 60 years for Sherman Burnett Jr., 15. He will not be eligible for parole until at least 2056.

Wiesman said he took the 8-year-old girl's recommendation into consideration.

The victim, who sat in the front row with her mother, did not testify at Thursday's sentencing hearing in St. Louis County Circuit Court. But she wrote to Wiesman on Sept. 25: "I want for him to go away for 60 years. Because wen he gets out he won't hurt any other person."

The girl was 6 and Burnett 13 when he attacked her Nov. 11, 2005, in the neighborhood where both lived. He was charged as an adult and booked as the youngest inmate in recollection at the adult jail in Clayton, which held him apart from other inmates.

He now goes to the Department of Corrections for placement in the prison system.

Burnett's mother and other relatives had written to the judge, urging leniency. But Wiesman passed up an opportunity to send Burnett to a juvenile treatment center, from which he might have been able to win freedom as early as age 17.

Instead, the judge ordered consecutive sentences of 20 years each for kidnapping and assault and 10 years each for sodomy and attempted rape. Burnett pleaded guilty to the charges Aug. 10. He will be eligible for parole after serving 51 years. Presuming credit for time already served, that would be in 2056, when he is 64.

Burnett made no statement Thursday and showed no emotion; his family appeared stunned.

He abducted, beat and sexually assaulted the girl and left her semiconscious near railroad tracks not far from her home.

The victim's family was frantic and a massive search was organized that night — "the worst night of all our lives," her mother wrote Wiesman. "She was only 6 years old and in the first grade. The thought that she could have been taken from me at such an early age sickens me. The image of my child in the hospital terrorizes me daily."

A police officer found her the next morning. She had suffered a skull fracture, a lacerated liver and heavy bruises, and half an ear had been torn off.

She told police she couldn't walk, so she crawled through a hole in a fence near the tracks but could go no further. As night descended, she said, she tried to cover herself with leaves. From her hospital bed, the girl identified Burnett from a school picture.

The court file contains letters seeking leniency for Burnett, from his mother, brother, sister, aunt, four cousins and a minister.

His mother noted that he already has been locked up for two years, is still young and was "very remorseful."

That remorse wasn't apparent to Brent Brueck, a senior program administrator for the Missouri Division of Youth Services. He interviewed Burnett recently to see if he would be eligible for a dual jurisdiction juvenile program of his agency and the Department of Corrections, in Montgomery City, Mo.

Brueck testified that Burnett told him the incident was caused by the girl, because she had thrown a rock at him. Also, Burnett denied trying to rape her. Brueck confirmed under questioning by prosecutor Rob Livergood that there was no evidence in any of the records or police reports to back up Burnett's claims.

Brueck also said the teens he interviews often seek to minimize their crimes, and that Burnett would be a candidate for the program.

Defense attorney Nellie Ribaudo argued for the joint program as a place where Burnett could get counseling, sex offender treatment and education unavailable in prison.

Had Burnett been put there, he would have been entitled by law to hearings upon turning 17 and 21, and potentially eligible for probation at the discretion of a judge after either hearing.

But Wiesman decided the program was inappropriate "in light of the severity of the assault and what appears to be a threat to the community."

The victim's family said they have moved to another state.

Her mother said in her letter to the judge that the victim "still has teenage years to go through and I am going to keep her in therapy as long as it takes. Only time will tell the true magnitude of the damage he has caused her."

Earlier this year, Wiesman dismissed from the case misdemeanor counts of sexual misconduct and assault. In June 2005, Burnett had allegedly offered an 11-year-old girl $50 for sex, and threw her brother to the ground when she refused and he intervened.

[keRplunK]

Re: 13 year old sentenced to 60 years for raping 6 year-old neighbor

Horrific crime. But I'm also sure that 13 year old has been abused rather extensively as well if he did something like this. Random 13 year olds don't just go out and do that to 6 year olds.