Posted on 05/10/2015 5:46:43 PM PDT by BBell
A Colorado woman was sentenced Friday to 38 years in prison for beating a man to death with a baseball bat because she wrongly suspected him of molesting a child, The Denver Post reported.
Forsythia Owen, 32, of Englewood, was convicted of second-degree murder, first-degree assault and tampering with evidence in the September 2013 death of Denzel Rainey, 42.
Owen told authorities she repeatedly struck Rainey with a Louisville Slugger bat as he was sleeping in an alley because her 4-year-old daughter claimed he had touched and sexually abused her.
Rainey was found with a skull fracture, cuts to his head, a broken left arm, six broken ribs, a laceration to the liver and a left testicle hemorrhage, CBS Denver reported. He died hours later at a hospital.
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Or her mother imagined it all, making demands on the little girl, who (at age four) just pointed out someone.
Episode 1 of Alfred Hitchcock presents, I believe. Not a movie.
I’d hit it.
Yes.
Random to the point of being wrong about who is guilty.
Because EVERYONE is guilty of SOMEthing.
Didn’t read the whole article, but why would a 4-year-old child claim molestation falsely?
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