14yo Rapist; 77yo Victim

[glatt]

Similar case in my area recently. But the punishment was far harsher.

The facts in a nutshell: 13 year old boy was in a juvenile detention center on burglary charges when he beat and strangled his 65 year old teacher to death and then sexually assaulted her (corpse). That was about two years ago. He was 14 when the trial started a month or so ago, and it was determined that he should be tried as an adult. He turned 15 before the trial was completed and he agreed to plead guilty and accept an 85 year sentence. He will serve at least 42.5 years in prison before he can be released on parole. If he behaves himself, he will come out of prison at age 57 in 2054. Otherwise, he could theoretically be in there until age 100.

For such a brutal case involving such a young defendant, the conclusion was somewhat subdued. None of [the boy's] relatives went to court...

eta: oh, and almost as an afterthought, the article mentioned that he also pleaded guilty to an unsolved stabbing in his neighborhood, when he would have been 12, after investigators matched the fingerprints on the knife to him.