The Chicago Tribune reports from Oklahoma City:

A jury recommended a 30,000-year prison sentence for a convicted child rapist because they didn't want him on the streets again. "By God we can send a message," jury forewoman Laura Bixler said.

He could be up for parole, though, in as little as 15 years.

[Ed.: An Oklahoma appeals court upheld the stiff sentence, and the only dissenting judge said he would have ordered the six 5,000-year sentences—one for each separate charge—to be served concurrently instead of consecutively.]

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