Cliff fall jury told to put emotions aside for guilty verdict
Bristol County man sentenced to six years
A convicted murderer had two children sentenced in the death of his ex-wife and ex-girlfriend, as well as two other children, to life in prison without parole each for the rape and murder of their daughter and ex-girlfriend.
Randy Hatton, 58, of South Bristol, was convicted of the two rape murders of his former wife, Julie A. Brown, 34, and her second wife, Kathy W. Tay정선카지노lor, 35, and a third-degree kidnapping of their daughter, Emil퍼스트 카지노y T. Brown.
In both incidents, Hatton admitted to the murders, and in the second, he was sentenced to 60 years in prison.
Hatton, who served as a jury foreman at the case, and his wife lived in Somerset County and served as a caretaker for the Taylor children before the pair decided to move back to Pennsylvania, where their daughter was born.
Somerset County jury told he had done wrong: An excerpt from the guilty verdict
In her daughter’s life: Julie Brown and Jason Taylor
In addition to the 12-year sentence, prosecutors said, Hatton received eight years probation after pleading guilty to charges of rape.
Sentencing, district attorney Bill J. Pugh said of Hatton’s actions: “What he did was very bad, very heinous. He was the worst, perhaps the worst, father in the county. He is in deep trouble for it. All he could do was show remorse and accept responsibility.”
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The two rape victims’ story: A jury trial for the rape victims of Jason Taylor, 38, and Julie Brown, 38, pictured here on Nov. 4, 2012. Jason Taylor, charged with raping the ex-wife and girlfriend of a former patient with anorexia, and kidnapping the girl, faces life in prison without parole at his trial in Somerset County this July.
The pair lived alone and were dating at the time of the rape, authorities said. On the night of December 16, 2004, Taylor, who has since gone free, raped Brown in her front yard at her home near East New London with a knife, Pugh said.
She testified that he strangled her and took her clothes off, Pugh said, explaining that Brown wa