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Somali refugee, 20, who raped two Utah women in 2011 when he was 14 is spared adult prison
- [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Mohammed Ali Mohammed admitted raping two Utah women at knife point when he was just 14 in 2011
- He was incarcerated for six years in juvenile detention but was due to age out of the system when he turns 21 next month
- Judge decided rather than send him to adult prison, she would sentence him to five years probation
- Sentence is a blow to his victims who had asked for him to be sent to jail
- One woman, who Mohammed raped in her own home before forcing her to withdraw money from an ATM, is 'terrified' at the thought her rapist will be free
- Breaking down in tears in court, she told the judge: 'He did adult crimes and should have an adult sentence to match what he did'
- Prosecutors said the life of other victim, once a promising college student, fell apart after the assault, descending into drugs and trouble with the law
- Mohammed admits he was 'a monster' but said he'd turned his life around
- Court also heard how he'd witnesses his brother's murder, and suffered sexual abuse, as a child in the Somali refugee camps in Yemen before coming to the US
Posted by: Fred 2017-11-29 |
