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TexasTowelie

(112,217 posts) Sun Jun 7, 2015, 11:16 PM Jun 2015

Follow-up: Irving man who raped teen, left baby in toilet gets 50 years

By the time he can get out of prison, Mauricio Hernandez will be 77.

The newborn daughter he left to drown in a portable toilet would have been 25.

Hernandez will be eligible for parole in 23 years after he was sentenced Friday for the sexual assault of a teenager to whom he gave emergency contraceptive pills before she delivered his baby in the toilet.

Sentenced to 50 years in prison by a Dallas County jury, he already has spent two years in jail.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20150605-irving-man-who-raped-teen-left-baby-in-toilet-gets-50-years.ece

Earlier thread:
Irving case where newborn was left to die in porta-potty “screams out for moral outrage”

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Follow-up: Irving man who raped teen, left baby in toilet gets 50 years (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2015 OP

Finally some rational sentencing Kalidurga Jun 2015 #1

I was thinking the same thing. historylovr Jun 2015 #3

... shenmue Jun 2015 #2

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

1. Finally some rational sentencing

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Sun Jun 7, 2015, 11:24 PM

Jun 2015

I have to wonder though what the sentence would have been if a baby hadn't been involved. I would hope it would be very close to the same number of years. But I doubt that he would have gotten more than a few years.

"Hernandez’s actions were an “aberration” — that he was a decent person who panicked after giving in to a manipulative teenager’s advances amid a tense family situation."

We need to put that kind of language down hard. It's a big reason the sexual assault of teenagers isn't taken seriously.