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Regarding Cory Batey and Brock Turner...
Mistrial in Vandy rape case
"Jury Sees Video Of Alleged Rape In Batey Retrial"
The Tennessean reports;
Cory Batey, 22, sentenced to 15 years in prison, the minimum the judge in the case could impose.
“It is one of the saddest cases that I have ever encountered,” Criminal Court Judge Monte Watkins said. “And I’ve been in the legal business for 32 years.”
Criminal Court Judge Monte Watkins
The victim spoke in court about the devastating impact the rape had on her.
The ruling came at the end of a 90-minute hearing in which the rape victim gave an emotional statement about her own life sentence. She spoke from a podium, reading her statement, pausing to cry and looking up at the judge.
The woman was 21 and unconscious when police say four men raped her on the floor of a university dorm on June 23, 2013.
The woman does not remember the rape.
Metro Nashville police told her what happened as they uncovered evidence in their investigation, including graphic photographs and videos of the rape. Those videos were both the key evidence and a unique piece of evidence that drew additional attention to the case that some said furthered discussion of how colleges respond to sexual assault.
“But sexual assault was not where the attack ended,” she said. Her sobs intensified as the described what else the men did to her.
“Mr. Batey continued to abuse and degrade me, urinating on my face while uttering horrific racial hate speech that suggested I deserved what he was doing to me because of the color of my skin. He didn’t even know who I was.”
The woman left the courtroom when the judge gave Batey a chance to speak.
In prior court hearings, prosecutors have acknowledged a racial statement was made but it was never said publicly in court.
On Friday, multiple sources confirmed to The Tennessean the statement Batey made.
“That’s for 400 years of slavery you b----,” Batey said, according to the sources.
He apologized to his mother and other supporters and to Vanderbilt, the school that gave him a scholarship and the institution his actions put in a bad light.
"I hope that if not today maybe one day you would find it in your heart to forgive me for any damages I may have caused," Batey said in court, calling the rape an "unintentional tragedy."
Two pastors spoke on Batey’s behalf, saying he was a church-going man capable of rehabilitation. Batey’s mother also spoke.
A tear slid down Batey’s cheek when she took the stand.
Audrey Batey attended her son’s trial in January 2015, a 12-day proceeding that was later nullified when the judge declared a mistrial because of an issue with a juror. Batey was tried again in April, and his mother was there each day.
She worked at Vanderbilt for more than 30 years, according to prior testimony.
"I couldn’t believe it was my son," she said of first learning about the charges against her son. "I really couldn’t... Because I know how he care about people and I know that wasn’t Cory."
She said the rape was “real out of character for Cory.”
Batey's lawyer, Worrick Robinson, asked if Audrey Batey would like to meet the victim and what she would tell her.
“That I’m sorry," Audrey Batey said.
"It wasn’t my son, and will you forgive us.”
Robinson said after the hearing that he was confident Batey would be released from prison and be a productive member of society. He said he may seek a placement in the Department of Correction that keeps Batey in Middle Tennessee,
allowing Batey to see his family and son who was conceived and born while this case was pending.
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Sadly, it appears Childhood Trauma' (#ACEs) victim Cory Batey's HATE and Racism cost him 15 years of his life in prison, as well as getting his name placed on the Sexual Offenders list for the rest of his life.
Even sadder, despite the fact the rape was videotaped, Cory's MOTHER continues DENYING her son is a emotionally or mentally ill citizen who joined other apparent mentally disturbed citizens in causing life scarring emotional harm to an INNOCENT fellow American citizen.
Question: Are the facts and circumstances of the Batey GANG-RAPE case comparable to the facts and circumstances of the Brock Turner
ATTEMPTED rape case?
WIKI: "On March 30, 2016, Turner was found guilty of three felonies: assault with intent to rape an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object"
Brock Turner showed remorse for his despicable conduct....while Cory Bater showed no remorse and IN FACT continued spewing HATE at his victim during a court proceeding.
Sadly, Cory's mom, whose husband passed in 2004, takes no responsibility for raising a violent, racist HATER lacking compassion, empathy and respect for his peaceful fellow American neighbors.
Peace.
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