Westchester Teen Sentenced For Sex Attacks On Woman, Young Girl
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- It was a wild scene Tuesday in a Westchester County courthouse as a judge sentenced a 16-year-old rapist.
The judge said Javon Roberts exhibited sadistic depravity like no one she had seen in her court before, CBS2's Lou Young reported. Roberts was sentenced to 3 1/3 to 10 years in prison -- the maximum punishment allowed because he was just 15 years old when he attacked a woman and child in separate incidents in Mount Vernon.
As the court session ended, the older victim threw a wedge shoe at Roberts' mother out of frustration. The woman was struck in the head and later wheeled out to an ambulance. She was not seriously hurt.
The victim was not taken into custody, but was given a ticket.
Both attacks by Roberts, who pleaded guilty to to rape and criminal sexual act, were hourslong ordeals of brutality.
Authorities said a 23-year-old woman was abducted at knifepoint on Oct. 20, 2014, while walking home from work. They said Roberts took her to the Grimes Elementary School playground and forced her to perform sex acts.
Then, on Dec. 4, authorities said Roberts grabbed an 11-year-old girl as she walked home from a Christmas concert at a Mount Vernon library. Roberts took her to the same school and raped her at knifepoint, authorities said. He threatened that he would kill her if she didn't stop screaming.
Roberts told arresting officers he couldn't help himself.
In court Tuesday, the older victim told her attacker: "You are a murderer as well as a rapist. Part of me died in that playground. I take my soul back from you. Today, you are the powerless one."
Roberts' crimes continue to hang over the neighborhood, where some recognized him from his mug shot.
"I think people are more cautious of what's going on around here," said Maliks Arline.
His sentence is not long enough, many said.
"He got it lightly," said Linda Crenshaw, of Mount Vernon.
"He should do life," one man said.
Although Robert is eligible for parole in three years, he's expected to serve the maximum 10 years, at which time the state can move to have him civilly detained as a danger to society.
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