I don't think this man is well at all. How on this planet can a 5 year old girl rape you?
An Ohio man
convicted of raping a 5-year-old girl blamed the victim for his crime during
his sentencing.
Clifford
Taylor, a 51-year-old former research scientist, was given the maximum sentence of 22 years on
Nov. 12, the News-Herald reported.
In October,
Taylor admitted in court to molesting his girlfriend's daughter while baby-sitting her sometime between May and
July of last year, according to Cleveland.com.
The child later told her mother, who went to authorities. Taylor was convicted
on two counts of rape.
During his
sentencing, Taylor blamed his defense lawyer for suggesting the plea deal he
had earlier agreed to take.
“I was
threatened with mental incompetence," Taylor said of his lawyer. "He
threatened me, saying there was some reason I wasn’t thinking properly.”
Judge Eugene
A. Lucci wasn't buying the excuse, and explained that Taylor's lawyer was only
asking his client if a hearing to determine his mental competency would be
necessary.
Taylor
avoided spending his life in prison when he admitted to raping
the child, telling a court that he got drunk and bribed the child
with Pudding Pops to perform oral sex on him.
“I did not
stop the child. That’s the part the prosecutor will get me on,” he said at the
time. “She wanted a snack.”
During his
sentencing, Taylor blamed the little girl for getting raped by him. More from
the News-Herald:
“It’s not true! I was told to lie to you by
the man sitting right next to me,” Taylor said Nov. 12. “I don’t even remember
what I told you. But it wasn’t true. The lie was that I put my penis in her
mouth for Pudding Pops. My penis did get in her mouth, but I didn’t put it in
there. She put it in there. She grabbed me. She was experimenting. I was drunk
and realized it too late.”
Several people in the standing-room
only courtroom gasped at Taylor’s claims.
The convict
went on to say he was "not a monster." Lucci responded by adding two
more years to his sentence.
"Even in
court he blamed the victim for taking his penis in her mouth as a form of
experimentation," Lucci said. "At the age of 5!”
Taylor's
attorney asked the judge to be excused from representing the rapist at his
future appeal hearing.
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