Texas man sentenced to 99 years in starvation case

[babylonsister]

Not enough time imo...

Texas man sentenced to 99 years in starvation case
By JEFF CARLTON, Associated Press
AP


A Dallas man convicted of starving three children locked in a hotel bathroom for nearly a year was sentenced to 99 years in prison Tuesday after jurors heard testimony that one child was suicidal and another preferred urinating in his hospital bed to entering a restroom.

The youngest victim, a 6-year-old boy whose head barely peeked over the witness stand, told jurors he liked the hospital where he was taken after being rescued from the squalid hotel along a busy Dallas highway in July 2009.

"I got to eat," he said.

The jury sentenced Alfred Santiago, 38, hours after they convicted him of injury to a child and continuous sexual abuse. Prosecutors had asked for a life sentence. Santiago's attorney had asked for 25 years, the minimum allowed under the sex abuse conviction.

Santiago also was fined $20,000.

After the sentencing, Santiago told the judge he would appeal.

"God knows I am not guilty of these charges," he said.

The children were emaciated when they were found last summer. Their ribs and spines showed through flaky skin, and the oldest child, an 11-year-old girl, told authorities she had been repeatedly sexually assaulted.

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http://www.salon.com/wires/us/2010/07/27/D9H7MHRG0_us_starved_children/index.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. good

[Axle_techie]

2. Lock him up and don't feed him

Let the bastard be raped repeatedly as the life fades from his eyes. He treated those kids in a way even the most disease ridden animal would not have treated any other living thing.

[malaise]

3. Throw away the key

That's the face of evil. :puke:

[Doeed]

4. Just kill the bastard

He doesn't deserve to be wasting our oxygen.

[Turbineguy]

5. Feed him well and give him medical care.

Enjoy as much of that 99 years as you can!

[ZombieHorde]

6. Those poor kids. So sad. nt

[Scurrilous]

7. Good.

:thumbsup: