News: State District Judge Mark Morefield on Friday wrote the final chapter in the notorious gang rape case of an 11-year-old Cleveland girl when he accepted the guilty plea of the last of 21 assailants.
Cordney Demond Bennett, 21, of Cleveland was positively linked to the case by a DNA specimen found at the crime scene, but authorities took a year before they were able to put a name to that specimen.
In the Liberty County plea agreement, Bennett received a reduced seven-year sentence in exchange for pleading guilty to indecency with a child by exposure. He also will be required to register as a sex offender for 10 years after completing the sentence.
The charge stems from a series of assaults of the young girl that occurred in 2010 in the community off U.S. 59 about 40 miles north of Houston. An investigation initially was launched when Cleveland school authorities confiscated recordings of the assaults that had gone viral and were being viewed on the Cleveland High School campus.
A vacant, dilapidated house located on the poorer side of town known as “the quarters” was where most of the assaults occurred, along with the home of one of the assailants.
Only two adult males requested trials, and juries handed both life or 99-year prison sentences. Eleven other adult males received 15-year sentences in exchange for pleading guilty to sexual assault of a child, while the seven juveniles entered guilty pleas for seven-year probated sentences.
* I remember that Cleveland, TX rape case very well. The hispanic girl was 11 and all of the accused, about 20 of them, were black. After two of them went on trial and got life sentences, everyone else rolled and got probation (if they were minors) and 15 years if eligible for adult trial.
It’s not that the media didn’t cover it. It was rather that outlets like the New York Times did extensive writeups, didn’t mention the race of the accused, and also allowed themselves to argue that the victim was inviting the assault because she was dressing like a 21 year old slut, etc.
You are right that Sabrina would have been all over that case if accused were white. Generally speaking, black guys who commit sexual assault are far more common, it isn’t really “news”, and I’m sure the SJW types think that, to even talk about it, is to encourage “racism.” It’s very strange.
