Tuesday, August 16, 2022

40 Years for Nursing Home Rapist

 Madison-Rankin District Attorney Bubba Bramlett issued the following statement. 

Harris, 35, pled guilty to sexual battery and felon in possession of a firearm as a non-violent habitual offender on Monday. He was sentenced by Judge Steve Ratcliff to the maximum for each offense for a total of forty years to serve day-for-day, without the eligibility for parole.

On January 13, 2022, Harris posed as a new hire for Canton Manor Nursing Home. He was allowed entry into the building in the early morning hours. After gaining access to the facility, Harris went to the room of a twenty-nine-year-old female resident. Due to severe developmental delays, the victim had been a resident in a care facility for most of her life. Surveillance video showed the suspect enter the room of the victim. Harris then forced her to have sexual intercourse with him. Nursing staff at Canton Manor found a used condom in the victim’s trash can, alerting them to the sexual assault. Forensic evidence from the victim’s sexual assault examination confirmed Harris’s DNA on the victim’s body. When officers located Harris the next night, they found a handgun on the driver’s seat of his car. Harris had been twice previously convicted of felon in possession of a firearm.

District Attorney Bramlett stated, “Antwon Harris deserves every day of the sentence he received. I am appreciative that the staff of Canton Manor Nursing Home and the Canton Police Department were so quick and thorough in their investigations. This allowed the Crime Lab to obtain Harris’s DNA, ensuring a conviction in this case. Harris had at least three prior felonies out of Texas. This career criminal conned employees of Canton Manor Nursing Home to sexually abuse a vulnerable adult.”



31 comments:

Anonymous said...

When are we going to hear about the civil trial against the facility and it’s owners?
There was some serious negligence to allow this to happen!

Anonymous said...

He looks kinds delayed too!

Anonymous said...

Again, why was he even out of jail
? These so-called judges need to be kicked out and accountable for things like this.

Anonymous said...

With any luck for all of those 40 years he will enjoy a role reversal in prison, and his prison moniker will be Ben Dover.

That'sMisterDeplorableToYou said...

Harris had at least three prior felonies out of Texas.

This is why I support mandatory, STIFF sentencing laws for violent felonies of any kind. As it stands, they get chance after chance, and only when they kill someone or do something like this, are they properly dealt with.

Anonymous said...

The justice system is a bring down bummer of a joke.
This is my justice. Take a rusty dull knife and cut off the b*lls & d**k of Harris! Madison & Rankin count is a real pu**y.

Anonymous said...

@11:43
I doubt anyone who dumps their disabled family into a place like Canton Manor for their entire life, will bother to sue.

Anonymous said...

@ 1:00. If you really believe that about folks in Canton, you need to get back on your meds. All they see right now is $$$$$$$$$$ signs.

Anonymous said...

Felon in possession of a firearm has become almost literally a slap on the wrist. The real issue is how he fooled the entire staff of the Nursing Facility. Don't let his looks surprise or deceive you, he knew and planned what he did.

Unknown said...

Why did the nursing home hire someone with three prior felonies? What about a background check?

Anonymous said...

“non-violent habitual criminal”!!?? Should have got the “Big Bitch”! Guess the DA pled it down or statutory provisions didn’t allow.

Anonymous said...

@2:03
They didn’t hire him. It clearly says that he was there, claimed he was looking for a job, and they let him “roam around” until he found a victim.

Anonymous said...

Yep, there's no reasonable expectation for the rehabilitation of a guy, one with a past like this, who deceives his way into a nursing home to have his way with a resident. They found his DNA in a condom in the room of a developmentally-disabled woman, so there's a one in several million chance he DIDN'T do it. Therefore, we're confident he did it.

With that degree of certainty, I see no sense in the State of MS spending any time or money housing him for the next 40 trips around the sun. A $0.25 round of from a .45 to the head, and it's on to the next deviant.

THAT'S what I call justice (plus, the next guy who wants to step in his shoes would have something to remember before moving forward. It's a concept we USED to believe, called deterrence.)

Anonymous said...

He posed as a “new hire”. That’s a smart tactic when the business has high turnover. The workforce in such a business is constantly seeing ‘new hires’ wandering around looking lost. It just becomes part of the landscape.

Years ago, I fired a plant worker, then discovered he continued showing up and working as if nothing happened for several days afterward. Coworkers shrugged and said they figured him being fired was just a rumor, since no one would ever show up and work for free! Of course we had to pay him.

Anonymous said...

And 2:35 you are wrong as well… said he posed as a new hire, not looking for a job, implies he already had it. Just saying….

Anonymous said...

Canton Manor liability policy premiums just went up. A pinstriped vulture will soon settle on their shoulders to rip and jerk a meal.

That'sMisterDeplorableToYou said...

@3:07 You haven't bought any .45 ammunition in a quite a while.

Anonymous said...

There is a special place in HELL for people like this.&

Anonymous said...

Chris said...
Why did the nursing home hire someone with three prior felonies? What about a background check?

Why do we let people like Chris vote?

Anonymous said...

Madison - 40 years w/o parole

Hinds - an apology from the court

Anonymous said...

Just another law abiding citizen. Well when your justice system is overrun with liberal idiots and you have street level liberal idiots crying about jails and other whiny “Just Us” liberal crap this is what you get.

Anonymous said...

What horror having this slime ball on top of her pumping away to get his jollies. He needs a gender re-assignment using a dull and rusty knife.

Anonymous said...

The punishment here doesn’t fit the crime. Now we have to feed, clothe, house and provide medical care for this piece of crap.
No need to spend the taxpayers money on a bullet, bring back public hanging. Let him do the hemp dance on the front lawn of the courthouse at noon on Saturday. Not only will it serve as a deterrent for crime, (he will never commit another crime), but it is a saving of our tax money. Rope is reusable!

Anonymous said...

This hell hole of a healthcare location will soon, if not already, be for sale.

Oh...where was his badge, his I.D., how did he enter and exit the building, nobody recognized him as never having been in orientation, he didn't clock in or out....just allowed to show up and wander around? Sounds like $6.5 mil.

Anonymous said...

"This hell hole of a healthcare location will soon, if not already, be for sale." You so funny. This place has had many many complainants and investigations. Still full.

Anonymous said...

People that comment on this site should be required to actually read the article they will comment about.

Anonymous said...

Too big to fail. Friends of the Dr. Mayor.

Anonymous said...

Reality is, he will get fed, housed and receive free medical care for the rest of his life.

Y'all kid yourselves into thinking that vengeance will happen, but in my limited legal experience, many rapists are treated the same as other prisoners. I have not seen the guaranteed jail house revenge that many seem to find solace in for these horrible offenders.

The nursing home will be sued, and in turn the cost to future residents will likely be increased.

Justice.

Anonymous said...

"The nursing home will be sued, and in turn the cost to future residents will likely be increased. Justice."

It's my guess that not a soul at that facility pays a dime. And if they do, it's nothing but an automatic turning over of their SS check to the facility each month, minus about eight dollars for their pocket change.

Anonymous said...

Fish, did you really think I was making a joke by saying this could have been much worse?

This would’ve gone unnoticed.. he probably would never have been caught. She could’ve/would’ve would up pregnant (?)… or with social disease..

Really? .. you assumed that was a joke?

Anonymous said...

I would like to back up and ask:

Did he just show up, enter and wander around and discover her room?

Did he know her or did he know she was there in her condition?

Did he enter the building with a plan of seeking out her room, specifically?

What connection was there to this female?

It's simply beyond bizarre to believe this guy just shows up, dressed as an employee, enters the building and stumbles into her room.

Surely these questions were pondered at the trial, even if he did not testify in his own behalf.



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