Though a man repeatedly denied all charges of child molestation made against him, he was found guilty of repeatedly forcing a girl, under the age of 10, to perform and receive oral copulation over a nine-month period, as reported by the Burnsville Patch.
Brooklyn Center resident, S.P., 38, was sentenced to 156 months in prison on January 4.
In May of this year police were alerted to a possible case of criminal sexual conduct in regards to a minor female. They were called to a Burnsville home where a 10 year-old girl reported that beginning in the early fall of 2011 S.P. abused her for approximately nine months.
The child reported that S.P. repeatedly woke her in the middle of the night, orally copulated the child and then forced her to orally copulate him.
S.P. was charged with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He pleaded not guilty to both charges.
A jury found him guilty early this past August. However, though he was scheduled for his sentencing hearing on October 23, 2012, the hearing was delayed twice. Both delays were due to S.P.'s failure to accept a psychosexual evaluation ordered by Judge David Knudson.
Carolina Lamas, S.P.'s attorney, claimed that her client refused to undergo the testing as he believed that it would force him to confess to a crime.
Both Judge Knudson and Chief Judge Edward Lynch have received long, handwritten missives penned by S.P. claiming his innocence. In an October 8 letter, titled "new evidence" S.P. wrote, "These allegations are completely false. I am a preach, Son of God, believer in Jesus Christ. I beg of you to look at my short 38 years on this earth and see my good works. I have been a blessing and a (sic) asset to my community, family and friends. No such evil is in me or done by me!"
The letter also detailed that S.P. had no contact with the victim, and that jailers kept him for 15 days in a 23-hour lockdown that violated his Constitutional rights.
In another letter, dated October 15, S.P.'s writing is altered, as is the focus of his message. This time S.P. wrote, "I have never 'consented' to these charges, nor were they ever presented to me, the authorized representative...These charges were brought against my corporation or corporate fiction, not me. I have not been convicted of this false allegation, crime or charge, nor can be, by Law."
The letters did nothing to thwart S.P.'s sentencing on January 5. Judge Knudson sentenced S.P. to nearly 10 years – 156 months – in prison. S.P. will have the possibility of a conditional release after he serves 10 years. S.P., previously jailed in the Dakota County Jail for 249 days, will be given credit for time served.
Following his sentencing, S.P. was moved into the custody of the St. Cloud Correctional Facility.
Also a condition of the sentence: S.P. has been ordered to submit DNA samples, register as a predatory offender and use his prison wages to pay restitution to the victim.
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