Police: Suspect Sexually Assaulted Utah Girl After Luring Her Into Field With Lost Pet Ruse
Prosecutors allege in court documents that the teenager enticed the girl from her house by knocking on her door and asking for help looking for a lost cat.
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Prosecutors allege in court documents that the teenager enticed the girl from her house by knocking on her door and asking for help looking for a lost cat.
The 15-year-old boy tried to entice another girl with a similar ruse at another girl's house in suburban Salt Lake City about 20 minutes before he knocked on the door of victim's Kailey Vijil's home, according to the charging documents.
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Police called it torture and say they're surprised the cat survived the attack. The animal was seen being shaken, grabbed by the tail, punched in the head and slammed to the ground.
The judge imposed a sentence against Megan Huntsman that went beyond what was called for in a plea deal because he was so repelled by the killings. Judge Darold McDade said that he heard about the case before it came to his courtroom and hoped it wouldn't be assigned to him.
But the aunt wouldn't let Tetzner take the children, and a crowd of about 50 people surrounded Tetzner's white van, Carter said. Some in the mob of mostly women in long dresses even threw chickens at the vehicle, she said.
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Prosecutors say the plea deal means Megan Huntsman, 39, will likely spend the rest of her life in prison over what authorities described as a heinous series of killings from 1996 to 2006.
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Cost may be part of the reason for the growing popularity of home births, said Nan Streeter, maternal and child health director at the Utah Department of Health. A typical hospital birth costs about $7,000 before insurance, and the bill for a cesarean section is usually more than twice that figure.
