He couldn't send them to hell, but a judge did invoke Dante's Inferno when he sentenced three gangbangers for a sadistic home invasion on Thursday.
Bloods thug Glendon Jackson was convicted of raping three women in front of a 5-year-old girl, while buddies Justin Harris and DeShawn Owens were nailed for robbery.
"I've never had a case like this because I can't understand the depravity that ensued as a result of this burglary-robbery," said Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Albert Tomei.
Strong words, but the judge was just getting started.
"You do have a mother who gave birth to you and certainly you would never want your mother subjected to what you did," Tomei told Jackson before slamming him with 260 years in prison.
"I don't know where you fit in society, Mr. Jackson," he said. "I don't know how you're wired."
Then Tomei brought up Dante's epic poem, in which damned souls are sent to levels of hell according to the severity of their sins.
"Somebody wrote a book, Dante Alighieri, where he ranked the crimes and this has to be one of the worst crimes and you have to be one of the worst offenders," he said.
During the Aug. 30, 2007, robbery in Crown Heights, a 43-year-old woman, her 17-year-daughter and a 22-year-old friend were raped.
The 5-year-old was forced to stand in the bathtub and watch Jackson rape her mother and older sister.
"Don't hurt my mommy, don't hurt my sissy, I need them," the little girl said, according to testimony in the eight-week trial.
Five adult men in the house on Sterling Place were also beaten and bound with duct tape. The home invaders may have been after marijuana cash.
Prosecutor Elizabeth Doerfler, who called the crime "a siege of terror," read statements from the victims.
"No mother should have to watch that happen to her child," the 43-year-old wrote. "I hate you."
The defendants maintained their innocence - and an attitude.
"That's great," Owens said, smiling, after he was hit with 153 years.
Harris, who got 192 years, insisted: "I can't be remorseful for something I never committed."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/07/07/2011-07-07_gangbangers_sentenced_to_life_in_jail_for_brutal_rapes_in_front_of_a_child_in_sa.html#ixzz1RXrBTEVI
Bloods thug Glendon Jackson was convicted of raping three women in front of a 5-year-old girl, while buddies Justin Harris and DeShawn Owens were nailed for robbery.
"I've never had a case like this because I can't understand the depravity that ensued as a result of this burglary-robbery," said Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Albert Tomei.
Strong words, but the judge was just getting started.
"You do have a mother who gave birth to you and certainly you would never want your mother subjected to what you did," Tomei told Jackson before slamming him with 260 years in prison.
"I don't know where you fit in society, Mr. Jackson," he said. "I don't know how you're wired."
Then Tomei brought up Dante's epic poem, in which damned souls are sent to levels of hell according to the severity of their sins.
"Somebody wrote a book, Dante Alighieri, where he ranked the crimes and this has to be one of the worst crimes and you have to be one of the worst offenders," he said.
During the Aug. 30, 2007, robbery in Crown Heights, a 43-year-old woman, her 17-year-daughter and a 22-year-old friend were raped.
The 5-year-old was forced to stand in the bathtub and watch Jackson rape her mother and older sister.
"Don't hurt my mommy, don't hurt my sissy, I need them," the little girl said, according to testimony in the eight-week trial.
Five adult men in the house on Sterling Place were also beaten and bound with duct tape. The home invaders may have been after marijuana cash.
Prosecutor Elizabeth Doerfler, who called the crime "a siege of terror," read statements from the victims.
"No mother should have to watch that happen to her child," the 43-year-old wrote. "I hate you."
The defendants maintained their innocence - and an attitude.
"That's great," Owens said, smiling, after he was hit with 153 years.
Harris, who got 192 years, insisted: "I can't be remorseful for something I never committed."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/07/07/2011-07-07_gangbangers_sentenced_to_life_in_jail_for_brutal_rapes_in_front_of_a_child_in_sa.html#ixzz1RXrBTEVI
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