17 year old Sentenced to 90 Years for Vicious Attack

[Crazed Rabbit]

That's right, a 17 year who was part of a vicious, long, sadistic and brutal attack that was racially motivated, was sentenced to 90 years, and will have no chance of parole unitl he's 47 years old. Also note: noone got killed, so he didn't commit murder.

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Teen sentenced to 90 years for brutal attack

A 17-year-old suburban teen was sentenced Monday to 90 years in prison in the brutal attack of a Hispanic boy who was beaten, kicked, stomped, burned and sodomized with the plastic pole of a patio umbrella.

Keith Turner was the second teen convicted of aggravated sexual assault in the April attack at a house in Spring, north of Houston.

David Henry Tuck, 18, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on Nov. 16.

Turner was convicted late Friday after about 90 minutes of deliberations. The jury took about five hours over two days to reach the sentence of 90 years.

Turner will have to serve at least 30 years before becoming eligible for parole.

Although Turner was the younger of the assailants and didn’t have the history of racial attacks that colored Tuck’s past, it was his idea to use the patio umbrella pole in the attack.

Turner, Tuck, the victim and two other teens were partying at a house in Spring, drinking and taking cocaine and Xanax.

Twelve-year-old Danielle Sons, who was at the party at her house, told the other boys that the victim had tried to kiss her, prompting the attack.

Tuck shouted racial slurs and “white power” as he and Turner kicked the then 17-year-old, cut him with a knife, sodomized him with a plastic pipe and poured bleach on him in an assault that lasted up to five hours.

The victim was left bleeding in the backyard until dawn, when Sons and her brother, Gus, finally woke their mother, who slept through it.

During Turner’s trial, jurors saw a videotaped statement by Turner in which he admitted to being the first one to grab the umbrella pole and joking about using it to sodomize the victim.

Provides a sort of odd counter perspective to countries where men get off on parole after 5 years for raping a child.

Even I did a double take when I read about this sentence, though.

Crazed Rabbit

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Tuck shouted racial slurs and “white power” as he and Turner kicked the then 17-year-old, cut him with a knife, sodomized him with a plastic pipe and poured bleach on him in an assault that lasted up to five hours.

The victim was left bleeding in the backyard until dawn, when Sons and her brother, Gus, finally woke their mother, who slept through it.

During Turner’s trial, jurors saw a videotaped statement by Turner in which he admitted to being the first one to grab the umbrella pole and joking about using it to sodomize the victim.

90 years seems about right to me.

[yesdachi]

I’d forget to wet the sponge.

[Mooks]

Id hate to be those jurors....

[Pannonian]

Id hate to be those jurors....

I'd love to be the judge handing out the sentence though.

[Scurvy]

sentance seems a bit high to me, but it was a particularly violent attack, so he can't really complain

[GoreBag]

90 years seems about right to me.

It's hilariously preposterous to me. He'll be (un)lucky to live to 107 years of age anyway, and what makes anyone think that he'll be likely to bash another latino after, oh say, 50 years, when he'll be just old enough to do nothing but be a potential victim all day?

[rory_20_uk]

I imagine that the judge has thought of the time he wishes this creature to serve.

Half can be taken off for good behaviour, and some more might go with rehabilitation. Hence 90 means he's gonig to spend most of his formative life in the best place for him.

[BigTex]

As a side note, the kid who sodomized could still very well die from his wounds. If he does then this 90 year sentence is out the window. He will very likely have the attempted murder thrown out and retryed on Murder 1 with a very quick execution.

[Mooks]

Not quick. They drag death sentences over years and years. Im all for the death sentence though, why feed the ****** with taxpayer money?


EDIT : dont want another message from mithrandir.

[drone]

The victim was left bleeding in the backyard until dawn, when Sons and her brother, Gus, finally woke their mother, who slept through it.

I think I see the root of the problem here...

[Reenk Roink]

Life is prison is about right. That or an "eye for an eye". If the victim had died, he should have been executed.

[Sjakihata]

That should be maximum 2-4 years in prison. What good does it make to rob an individual for his entire active adult life for one action? Completely baffles me.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

That should be maximum 2-4 years in prison. What good does it make to rob an individual for his entire active adult life for one action? Completely baffles me.

Well, he tortured him for five hours, so it wasn't a moment of rage. He joked about it afterwards so remorse wouldn't stop him. And it was racially motivated so he has plenty of people to choose from to do it again. If he's in prison he won't.

[Scurvy]

I think I see the root of the problem here...

im not sure i do - we all need to sleep?

That should be maximum 2-4 years in prison. What good does it make to rob an individual for his entire active adult life for one action? Completely baffles me.

I think i agree, although maybe more than 2-4 because it was particularly vioent + racially motivated,

--> prison is not for punishment...

[King Henry V]

Owing to the complete failure of rehabilitation programmes in most cases, yes, prison is for punishment and protection of the public.

That should be maximum 2-4 years in prison. What good does it make to rob an individual for his entire active adult life for one action? Completely baffles me.

If such an incident ever happened to you, I would like to see you say that the sentence is unfair...

[Scurvy]

Owing to the complete failure of rehabilitation programmes in most cases, yes, prison is for punishment and protection of the public.

I agree that protection is very important, and in the case of definate (especially pre-meditated) murders and rape i would normally agree to a life sentance etc. however re-habilitation has to be equally important, its can be made more effective, and should be.

Punishment is pointless, because it serves no purpose, protection and rehabilitation do...

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Punishment is deterrent. I don't know why people deny this.

[BigTex]

Provides a sort of odd counter perspective to countries where men get off on parole after 5 years for raping a child.

Welcome to Texas.

He deserve's every moment he gets in jail. The crime was dispicable, and that article's even assuming he actually kissed her. Both the kid who was attacked and the younger girl denied that.

The poor kid nearly died, he was in the hospital for months. They didn't just sodomize him with a pole. They kicked the pole in, it made it past his colon and liver. The bleach was also poored into his rectum after he was sodomized, an attempt to "clean up". After all that he joked about it with his friends, and left him for dead.

Whats sad is, there wasnt one person involved with this. There was a group of 4 that all participated in this. I do hope they all recieve similiar sentences.

The kid who was torchered has severe life long damage to many lower internal organs. No this sentence is still to light, life without parole. Screw rehabilitation for these criminals.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

That should be maximum 2-4 years in prison. What good does it make to rob an individual for his entire active adult life for one action? Completely baffles me.

I'm all for re-habilitation, but I'm pretty sure that anyone who sodomizes someone with a garden umbrella is pretty violent, and might just pose a danger to others if he was released so soon.

[drone]

im not sure i do - we all need to sleep?

Turner, Tuck, the victim and two other teens were partying at a house in Spring, drinking and taking cocaine and Xanax.

Twelve-year-old Danielle Sons, who was at the party at her house, told the other boys that the victim had tried to kiss her, prompting the attack.

So the mother was present at the house, with her 12-year old daughter, and there was a party at the same house with booze, coke, and Xanax. You seriously don't see what the problem is? Whatever happened to parental responsibility? The mother deserves at least 5 years for letting this happen in the first place.