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| Girl's stalker gets 10-year prison term |
| By nydailynews.com |
| Published: 08/27/2009 |
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A furious judge threw the book on Wednesday at a pervert convicted of stalking and trying to abduct an 11-year-old girl in her Brooklyn apartment building. She sentenced first-time offender Bernard Mutterperl to 10 years - sternly rejecting his weepy argument he could get more help for his sick behavior outside prison walls. "This court has no tolerance for individuals who hurt children," Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Patricia DiMango said. The heavy sentence was the climax of an emotionally charged hearing in which the judge heard tearful statements from victim Xochil Garcia, her mother and Mutterperl - and then took a 30-minute recess. Reading more than two dozen letters from Mutterperl's family and friends - who argued the crime on Mother's Day 2007 was an "aberration" and an "act of foolishness" - didn't put the judge in a merciful mood. "This is not a mistake for a nonparent, male stranger to act on an urge to abduct an 11-year-old," she said. "You weren't going to hurt her? What were you going to do to her?" Read More. |
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