My heart breaks when I imagine the pain and agony this girl went through. This beast stalked her, kidnapped her by pretending to be a police officer, then took her to a bunker he made and kept her there for 10 days while he abused her. She was able to get his trust and his cel phone and contacted her mom.
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Vinson Filyaw stood with his arms clasped behind him as he quietly answered, "Yes sir" when the judge asked him if he was freely pleading to the charges. The victim sat with family members, her mother's arm around her. Filyaw, 37, could spend the rest of his life in prison. He pleaded guilty to kidnapping and all 10 counts of criminal sexual conduct, one for each day prosecutors said he held the girl captive a year ago in Kershaw County. Each criminal sexual conduct charge carries a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. He also pleaded guilty to impersonating an officer and possession of an incendiary device. Prosecutors said Filyaw wore a homemade uniform when he led the girl away from a school bus stop. The teen was rescued last year after she sent a cell phone text message more than a week after her abduction. Opening arguments had been scheduled for Tuesday morning in the trial. The case was moved nearly 200 miles to Beaufort County, in the state's southern tip, for fear publicity would interfere with Filyaw getting a fair trial. TV station WLTX reported Monday evening that Filyaw had sent a manuscript that said Filyaw stalked the girl and admired her ingenuity in gaining his trust to get his cell phone. In the writings, Filyaw allegedly said he watched the girl walk from her bus stop to her Kershaw County home before deciding to kidnap her. "I actually felt guilty for what I knew she was about to endure," he wrote, according to WLTX. Prosecutors said Filyaw kept the girl in a hidden bunker built into the side of a hill for 10 days. According to the manuscript, he wrote that he felt a bond growing between them and started to trust her enough to let her out of the bunker to help him wash clothes and dishes. |
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He felt guilty about what he was about to do to her? I know there are a lot of people who would not feel guilty in the least for what they would do to him. Needless to say, justice will come in prison and in the beyond.
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The beast was condemned to 421 years in prison. Bastard.
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BEAUFORT, S.C. - A man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 14-year-old girl and raping her for more than a week in an underground bunker was sentenced Wednesday to the maximum 421 years in prison. "I have a strong belief you have forfeited your right to be a member of this society," Judge G. Thomas Cooper said before handing down the sentence. "I can think of no crimes short of murder more repulsive than these." Vinson Filyaw pleaded guilty Tuesday, moments before his trial, to charges of kidnapping and 10 counts of criminal sexual conduct, one for each day prosecutors said he held the girl captive a year ago in Kershaw County. The teen was rescued after she got hold of Filyaw's cell phone and sent a text message for help. The girl, now 15, had planned to testify at his sentencing, but officials said she was too emotional to speak. Her mother hugged her as the girl's statement was read in court. "What he did was every person's worst nightmare ... a nightmare no one should have to endure or survive," prosecutor Luck Campbell read from the statement. The girl's mother described the fear and sleepless nights the family endured during the search for her daughter. She asked the judge to give Filyaw a lengthy sentence, one that would never allow him to leave prison... |
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