Rankin-Madison District Attorney Michael Guest issued the following press release:
Man
Receives 40-Year Sentence for Sexual Battery involving a 4-Year Old Girl
Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney
Michael Guest announced today that Tawarius Donta Sanders was sentenced to
serve 40 years for sexual battery involving a 4-year old girl. Sanders will be required to serve twenty years
of the sentence without the possibility of probation, parole or early
release. The last twenty years of his
sentence will be suspended and he will also have to register as a sex
offender. Upon his release he will be on
supervised probation for five years.
On December 29, 2012, the Canton Police Department was contacted by the Madison River Oaks Hospital regarding a four year child girl, who was a victim of sexual assault. The mother of the child informed law enforcement that her daughter had been to Sanders’ home and when she returned confided in her mother what had occurred. After learning of the abuse the mother immediately sought medical help for her child.
Guest concluded, “The
Canton Police Department and the Mississippi State Crime Laboratory did an
outstanding job of investigating this case and obtaining the hard evidence we
needed to prosecute and convict Sanders.
Without their hard work Sanders would still be walking the streets and
exposing our children to harm.”
District Attorney Michael Guest was
sworn into office in January 2008 and represents the Twentieth Judicial
District, Madison and Rankin Counties.
For more information regarding the District Attorney’s office, please
visit www.daguest.com
Defendant:
Name: Tawarus Donta Sanders
Address: 411
McKinley Street
Date of Birth: 8/24/86 Kingfish note: Compare this case to Tomie Green, who illegally suspends five years from a man who molests his own daughter.
9 comments:
The son of a bitch should be castrated with a rusty dull butcher knife AND serve the full 40 years with NO parole.
Not that it will do the poor little one any good, but I feel that in the jailhouse,"justice will be served"---right up his sorry hiney. I hope the prison guards just look the other way...
what Green did was not illegal. a judge can suspend minimum sentences unless the statute setting the minimum includes language that said sentence shall not be suspended, what we call "mandatory minimums". what Green did was horrible, but not illegal.
12:20, guest's defendant must serve the sentence without parole, which is not the same thing as suspended time.
Nice try, Poetry. The maximum sentence could have been life for that charge. She had no authority to suspend any part of the sentence.
agree 100% with 12:20 and will happily offer to do the deed.
wrong. sadly, she didn't give life. you can't suspend time when life is the ONLY sentence option, such as murder. there were, obviously, other sentencing options. Poetry??
The statute says the maximum has to be life, not that life is the only option.
Breaking: The legal community will be stunned to learn that Kingfish decrees judges have no authority to suspend sentences.
fish, when you pass a bar exam get back with us.
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