Thread: Man Gets 50-Year Term in Daughter's Rape

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02039.html


By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 11, 2007; Page B05

A Fairfax County man who raped and impregnated his 12-year-old daughter in 2001 and then fled the country for four years was sentenced yesterday to 50 years in prison.

Attorneys for the man, 39, had argued aggressively that he was innocent at court hearings in early 2002. They filed a motion seeking to preserve fetal tissue in the event that his daughter had an abortion. A Fairfax juvenile court judge rejected that motion, saying that he did not have the authority to order investigators "to obtain evidence which does not exist at this time."



The daughter did not have an abortion and delivered a girl at full term. The girl has genetic disorders, said Fairfax Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Raymond F. Morrogh.

The father's name is being withheld to protect the identities of his daughter and her child.

Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Stanley P. Klein granted the man $75,000 bail in February 2002, and he was released from jail. He disappeared the next month, and police think he went to his native El Salvador. His daughter's child was born that month, and DNA tests showed that the girl's father is the father.

Fairfax police did not drop the matter. Morrogh said that sex crimes Detective Paul O'Neill "never walked away from this case. This guy was gone for almost four years, and Paul never forgot about him."

In October last year, O'Neill got a tip that the man had returned to the United States. He was arrested at a construction site in the Falls Church area of Fairfax.

The man pleaded guilty in May to rape and sodomy. He faced a possible life sentence on the rape charge.

Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Robert W. Wooldridge Jr. imposed two terms to run concurrently, 50 years for the rape charge and 10 for the sodomy charge.

"He took the greatest gift a man could get, a daughter, and he threw her away," Morrogh said.

Absolutely the lowest piece of scum. This enrages me......what total trash. I hope he gets what he deserves in prison from his fellow inmates who don't usually tolerate that type of activity.

I guess it is their interpretation of "family values"

It must be -

This is so sad. That daughter's life is trashed - please God, she will be able to overcome it to some degree. That child has problems. That means we will have to support both of them, probably forever, and we will have to support this creep until he dies in prison.

Just that amount of money could go a long way to helping some American kid get an education, get some healthcare help, etc.

why doesn't our government send them to prisons in their home countries and let them rot there ? This vermin will be much too comfortable in our prisons........

USPatriot, he won't be that comfortable if he's put in general pop.



Head 'em up,move 'em out Rawhide!

Moved from News to Other topics. Nothing in this article refers to illegal immigration.

Sick, sick, sick

is this the norm; is this how they live; is this going to be the norm for the North American Union