It's about time judges get this shit right...

[Zerbean]

FOXNews.com - Man Gets 421 Years in Prison After Admitting to Raping Teen Who Text Messaged for Help - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

BEAUFORT, S.C. — A man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 14-year-old girl and raping her for more than a week in an underground bunker was sentenced Wednesday to the maximum 421 years in prison.

"I have a strong belief you have forfeited your right to be a member of this society," Judge G. Thomas Cooper said before handing down the sentence. "I can think of no crimes short of murder more repulsive than these."

Vinson Filyaw pleaded guilty Tuesday, moments before his trial, to charges of kidnapping and 10 counts of criminal sexual conduct, one for each day prosecutors said he held the girl captive a year ago in Kershaw County.

The teen was rescued after she got hold of Filyaw's cell phone and sent a text message for help.

The girl, now 15, had planned to testify at his sentencing, but officials said she was too emotional to speak. Her mother hugged her as the girl's statement was read in court.

"What he did was every person's worst nightmare ... a nightmare no one should have to endure or survive," prosecutor Luck Campbell read from the statement.

The girl's mother described the fear and sleepless nights the family endured during the search for her daughter. She asked the judge to give Filyaw a lengthy sentence, one that would never allow him to leave prison.

"Our daughter will always be a hero to us," she said. "Her bravery and determination to return to us gave her the ability to outsmart her captor."

Filyaw detailed the crime in writings made from his jail cell, which prosecutors quoted Wednesday in asking Judge G. Thomas Cooper for a harsh sentence.

Filyaw said he posed as a police officer when he kidnapped the girl as she walked home from her bus stop. She was chained to a pipe in the tiny bunker and raped daily, authorities said.

"Like a predator, I waited on one lonely stray to walk by," prosecutor Barney Giese read from Filyaw's manuscript. "My adrenaline was rushing. My plan was to try to arrest the girl quietly, rather than grabbing her and carrying her."

While she was held, the girl gained Filyaw's trust, and he said he gave her his cell phone to play games. She used the phone to send a text message to her mother that led rescuers to the bunker. It is Associated Press policy to not identify sexual assault victims.

Filyaw apologized to the girl and her family during brief remarks to the judge.

"There are no words or statement I could possibly give to undo the pain I have caused her and her family," he said. He has said he expects to spend the rest of his life in prison.

[Mr. Awesome]

What a dumb ass giving her his cell phone -_-' Chain her up, feed her occassionally and dont give her contact with the outside...that guy wont live out his 421 year sentence...i doubt hell live 6 months...criminals dont like child rapists, molesters and murderers.

[Oxll Sunslayer]

Finally some proper justice. I hate hearing about a Child rapist who get like 15 years and gets out on good behaviour. Its like wtf! I believe in Castration as a part of a rape punishment. If they are highly likely to reoffend, which seems to be the majority of cases, then they should be unarmed

421 years.... Its kind of retarded how Judges can do that. Seriously has any human made it to 400 years? Ahh well I know its an addition of all the sentences of 25 years etc... but you'd think we'd come up with a reasonable way of saying your in for good.

[Ungerashul Frumos]

He deserves what he got! I'm happy the judge gave it to him. You might as well just tell him ha is in for life I never understood that eaither.

[Mr. Awesome]

I believe in Castration as a part of a rape punishment. If they are highly likely to reoffend, which seems to be the majority of cases, then they should be unarmed

In the Words of Hartigan, "I took away his weapons *bang*...*bang*...Both of them"

[Phigdizzle]

i truely believe that the worst crimes anyone can commit are the crimes against children, i wouldnt have give this guy jail time the jails in this country are too comfortable. i would have given him a full week of torture and then executed!

[Ungerashul Frumos]

Originally Posted by Mr. Awesome

In the Words of Hartigan, "I took away his weapons *bang*...*bang*...Both of them"

That is one of the many cool sin city quotes. I agee with you both though. He does deserve more then jail time but He probably won't last long in jail anyway.

[Mr. Awesome]

Im telling you...hes going to die very soon in prison...Honor Among Thieves...or at least in this case, criminals...they dont like child molesters... thats why they die in jail.

[Zerbean]

I'm sure he'll live out the majority of his sentence and die of old age. It's required in most jails/prisons to provide adequet 'protection' for known inmates that are deemed to be a threat to other inmates or who may be harmed themselves.

Probably be a bit of solitary for this guy.

As far as finding something else to tell the guy he'll be in prison for good... I think a 421 year prison sentence does that nicely.

[KrystoferRobin]

They are SUPPOSED to protect guys like him, but it happens all the time that they don't, and that's fine by me.

let him rot

[TimePants]

Originally Posted by Phigdizzle

i wouldnt have give this guy jail time the jails in this country are too comfortable.

for a frame of reference, how many have you been in?

[Phigdizzle]

6 that i remember the longest stay being 6 months

[Rezwarius]

lol 421.. thats awesome.. who comes up with 421.. he could have said 1000 to really make a point.. but I guess 400 wasnt quite enough.. so he wanted 420 years.. then probably added the last 1 just for insult. lol

All jokes aside... that man deserves it.. hell he might cut off his own cock and put on makup after all the prison raping's he's going to get..

[TimePants]

Originally Posted by Phigdizzle

6 that i remember the longest stay being 6 months

for 10 counts of kidnapping and sexual misconduct, I assume?

also, any prison term less than one year is a midemeanor, meaning you were not incarcerated in the same facility as a man charged with a felony.

[Phigdizzle]

that is correct no Felonies for me yet!

[TimePants]

haha, he says yet. well, when and if you do get convicted of one, let us know how different it is than the county lockup, heh