A convicted rapist and murderer who served prison time for killing his "girlfriend" will now spend an additional 20 to 60 years in the New Hampshire State Prison for molesting a seven year old girl. Forty-four year old George Quintero, formerly of Salem, NH was found April 1 of aggravated felonious sexual assault and felonious sexual assault for molesting a seven year old girl at his house in February 2007.
Assistant County Attorney Karen Springer said that Quintero's past needed to be taken into consideration when sentencing. "I don't think we're trying to make an analogy, but I do think this defendant picked both of these victims," she said.
The judge in Quintero's case agreed, because her statement to the perpetrator was "If ever there was a case that deserved the maximum sentence, this is the case," said Judge Tina Nadeau, who said that Quintero had a proven history of preying on adults and children.
In 1984, Quintero was in the military, stationed in Germany, when he went to his 20-year-old girlfriend's home drunk wanting her to take care of him, Springer said. When she refused, he went to a friend's home. Quintero and his friend decided to return to the woman's home and murder her, she said.
"He punched her in her face four or five times. She tried to scream, tried to yell out. He responded by slicing both sides of her neck," Springer said. "After that, he raped her and so did his friend." The two men stabbed the woman with a knife repeatedly, Springer said.
After admitting to the rape and murder, Quintero was sentenced to 27 years, but got out of prison in May 2001 after serving 17 - a decision that according to the prosecutor, led to the molestation. "Had he done 27 years, it would have taken him into 2012 and we wouldn't be here."
The girl's mother, arguing for the maximum sentence, "She is a typical 10-year-old (now) with scars for the rest of her life. (She) was a victim because of this rapist and murderer."
Richard Samdperil, Quitero's attorney, said that his client had a productive life after release from prison and may have another chance of contributing to society. "When he was released from prison, he worked, he established a new relationship with a girlfriend. He still has the ability to work and contribute to society. All that should be considered."
Salem police Sgt. Michael Kelly, the investigator in the molestation case, said "He received what he deserved for a sentence. I'm happy for the mother and father of the victim and hope they can all move on with their lives."
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
New Hampshire ex guard sentenced to 13 to 26 years
By PAT GROSSMITH New Hampshire Union Leader Staff Friday, Sep. 12, 2008
CONCORD – A former prison guard was sentenced to 13-26 years for sexually assaulting two women inmates being treated in the Secure Psychiatric Unit (SPU) at the New Hampshire State Prison.
Darrell Brinkley, 53, of Antrim, pleaded guilty today in Merrimack County Superior Court to one count each of aggravated felonious sexual assault, felonious sexual assault, simple assault, extended term, and one count of indecent exposure. He was sentenced to the State Prison although a prosecutor said he will likely be transferred to an out-of-state prison.
Assistant Attorney General James T. Boffetti said the sentence provided some relief to the victims.
"These women were in an extraordinarily vulnerable position in that they were psychiatric patients," Boffetti said. "This office takes these matters very seriously and will vigorously prosecute them."
The state Department of Corrections fired Brinkley in 2005 but then he went to Iraq with his Naval Reserve Unit where he worked as a prison guard. Boffetti said the military was notified of the indictments when they were issued last year."They brought him back very quickly," he said.
Brinkley was originally indicted on 11 charges involving three women inmates. He pleaded guilty to four - two felonies and two misdemeanors - alleging he assaulted two women inmates. The remaining charges were dismissed, Boffetti said.
The sentence was imposed by Judge Carol Ann Conboy and included a 2 to 5-year suspended sentence on the misdemeanor offenses to be served consecutively.
CONCORD – A former prison guard was sentenced to 13-26 years for sexually assaulting two women inmates being treated in the Secure Psychiatric Unit (SPU) at the New Hampshire State Prison.
Darrell Brinkley, 53, of Antrim, pleaded guilty today in Merrimack County Superior Court to one count each of aggravated felonious sexual assault, felonious sexual assault, simple assault, extended term, and one count of indecent exposure. He was sentenced to the State Prison although a prosecutor said he will likely be transferred to an out-of-state prison.
Assistant Attorney General James T. Boffetti said the sentence provided some relief to the victims.
"These women were in an extraordinarily vulnerable position in that they were psychiatric patients," Boffetti said. "This office takes these matters very seriously and will vigorously prosecute them."
The state Department of Corrections fired Brinkley in 2005 but then he went to Iraq with his Naval Reserve Unit where he worked as a prison guard. Boffetti said the military was notified of the indictments when they were issued last year."They brought him back very quickly," he said.
Brinkley was originally indicted on 11 charges involving three women inmates. He pleaded guilty to four - two felonies and two misdemeanors - alleging he assaulted two women inmates. The remaining charges were dismissed, Boffetti said.
The sentence was imposed by Judge Carol Ann Conboy and included a 2 to 5-year suspended sentence on the misdemeanor offenses to be served consecutively.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
New Hampshire woman sentenced to life without parole for killing "boyfriends"
Shelia Labarre, a 49 year old New Hampshire woman who murdered her two “boyfriends,” was sentenced to life without parole in a Brentwood, NH courtroom on Friday, June 20. She was found burining trash which contained a victim, 24 year old Kenneth Countie’s, bones in 2006.
The remains of her other victim, Michael Deloge, were also found on her horse farm in Epping, NH, 50 miles north of Boston.
Her trial, which lasted 5 weeks, included defense arguments that LaBarre was a deluded woman who believes she was an angel sent to kill every man in her life because they were pedophiles, but the prosecution portrayed her as a cruel manipulative, and vindictive woman who lashed out at every man she dated.
In February, LaBarre admitted to killing both men, so jurors had to decide only whether a mental illnesses drove her to do it.
Throughout the trial, jurors heard evidence that LaBarre was an explosively violent woman who terrorized nearly everyone in her life. Defense attorneys argued the behavior, and ultimately the killings, were the product of a deep psychosis left unchecked and untreated; prosecutors insisted LaBarre was nothing more than a mean, sadistic woman who liked to prey on weak men for her own pleasure.
Neither side denied LaBarre's behavior went unchecked for decades, and both said LaBarre might have gotten away with Deloge's murder if investigators hadn't come to her farm as she was in the final stages of burning Countie's body. That visit was prompted by repeated pleas from Lodge, who filed missing-person reports and prodded police to go find her son.
Defense lawyer Jeffrey Denner said he plans to appeal.
"It continues to be our belief that she's deeply crazy and insane," he said. "We also understand there's a huge amount of emotion in this case that clouds this issue."
Dr. Albert Drukteinis, the state's forensic psychologist, testified that he believed LaBarre was sane, after reviewing more than 8,000 pages in the case file, interviewing LaBarre three times and spending more than 12 hours with her.
"She answered questions well, she tried to explain evidence away that made her look bad. This is not what someone sees over many hours in a person who is psychotic," Drukteinis testified
.
He said there was not enough evidence to show that a mental illness caused LaBarre to commit her crimes. The burden of proof was on the defense to show both that LaBarre suffered from a mental disease and that the murders were a product of that illness.
In a taped interview with Drukteinis played in court, LaBarre said she was driven to kill Deloge because he was hurting and killing her animals. In a separate interview, she said Countie's death was an accident.
Jurors also heard some of the hundreds of tape recordings LaBarre made of herself, some of which featured her interrogating or berating her victims. Malcolm Rogers, a forensic psychologist who testified for the defense, said those tapes illustrated that LaBarre has either a schizophrenic affect disorder or a delusional disorder that caused her to mistakenly believe the men were pedophiles and to kill them.
Rogers also said LaBarre believes she once died of a drug overdose but was sent back to Earth as an angel with special powers.
Ironically, the influence that LaBarre had on one of the victims was similar to that that a pedophile has on his victims.
LaBarre met, then groomed Kenneth Countie online in February 2006, and in the month between when Ken met LaBarre and his death,his mother, Carolynn Lodge, noticed her evil influence on him. Ken, according to his mother, was a socially awkward young man who mistook other’s attention to him as friendship when it was far too often, a way to take advantage of him.
"Throughout my son's short life, he endured the cruelty of many of his peers, believing they were his friends. Unfortunately, Kenny was never able to determine when someone was taking advantage of him. When Kenny met Sheila LaBarre, he believed her when she said she wanted to be with him. In Kenny's mind, he was going to live a new life on the farm. A new beginning."
LaBarre was Countie’s final perpetrator. Ken was last seen alive by his mother pushed in a wheelchair at a local Wal-Mart a month after he met laBarre, his face and hands covered with cuts.
"Sheila LaBarre took advantage of my son, who was a kind, caring, gentle young man who could not socially defend himself. She was a master of evil who deliberately tortured him. Sheila LaBarre stripped my son of all his dignity and self-worth before murdering him.”
After the verdict, Lodge said that the son that she lost has finally gained rest.
"This is for my son. [For] two years, my son could not rest. Now he can rest."
The remains of her other victim, Michael Deloge, were also found on her horse farm in Epping, NH, 50 miles north of Boston.
Her trial, which lasted 5 weeks, included defense arguments that LaBarre was a deluded woman who believes she was an angel sent to kill every man in her life because they were pedophiles, but the prosecution portrayed her as a cruel manipulative, and vindictive woman who lashed out at every man she dated.
In February, LaBarre admitted to killing both men, so jurors had to decide only whether a mental illnesses drove her to do it.
Throughout the trial, jurors heard evidence that LaBarre was an explosively violent woman who terrorized nearly everyone in her life. Defense attorneys argued the behavior, and ultimately the killings, were the product of a deep psychosis left unchecked and untreated; prosecutors insisted LaBarre was nothing more than a mean, sadistic woman who liked to prey on weak men for her own pleasure.
Neither side denied LaBarre's behavior went unchecked for decades, and both said LaBarre might have gotten away with Deloge's murder if investigators hadn't come to her farm as she was in the final stages of burning Countie's body. That visit was prompted by repeated pleas from Lodge, who filed missing-person reports and prodded police to go find her son.
Defense lawyer Jeffrey Denner said he plans to appeal.
"It continues to be our belief that she's deeply crazy and insane," he said. "We also understand there's a huge amount of emotion in this case that clouds this issue."
Dr. Albert Drukteinis, the state's forensic psychologist, testified that he believed LaBarre was sane, after reviewing more than 8,000 pages in the case file, interviewing LaBarre three times and spending more than 12 hours with her.
"She answered questions well, she tried to explain evidence away that made her look bad. This is not what someone sees over many hours in a person who is psychotic," Drukteinis testified
.
He said there was not enough evidence to show that a mental illness caused LaBarre to commit her crimes. The burden of proof was on the defense to show both that LaBarre suffered from a mental disease and that the murders were a product of that illness.
In a taped interview with Drukteinis played in court, LaBarre said she was driven to kill Deloge because he was hurting and killing her animals. In a separate interview, she said Countie's death was an accident.
Jurors also heard some of the hundreds of tape recordings LaBarre made of herself, some of which featured her interrogating or berating her victims. Malcolm Rogers, a forensic psychologist who testified for the defense, said those tapes illustrated that LaBarre has either a schizophrenic affect disorder or a delusional disorder that caused her to mistakenly believe the men were pedophiles and to kill them.
Rogers also said LaBarre believes she once died of a drug overdose but was sent back to Earth as an angel with special powers.
Ironically, the influence that LaBarre had on one of the victims was similar to that that a pedophile has on his victims.
LaBarre met, then groomed Kenneth Countie online in February 2006, and in the month between when Ken met LaBarre and his death,his mother, Carolynn Lodge, noticed her evil influence on him. Ken, according to his mother, was a socially awkward young man who mistook other’s attention to him as friendship when it was far too often, a way to take advantage of him.
"Throughout my son's short life, he endured the cruelty of many of his peers, believing they were his friends. Unfortunately, Kenny was never able to determine when someone was taking advantage of him. When Kenny met Sheila LaBarre, he believed her when she said she wanted to be with him. In Kenny's mind, he was going to live a new life on the farm. A new beginning."
LaBarre was Countie’s final perpetrator. Ken was last seen alive by his mother pushed in a wheelchair at a local Wal-Mart a month after he met laBarre, his face and hands covered with cuts.
"Sheila LaBarre took advantage of my son, who was a kind, caring, gentle young man who could not socially defend himself. She was a master of evil who deliberately tortured him. Sheila LaBarre stripped my son of all his dignity and self-worth before murdering him.”
After the verdict, Lodge said that the son that she lost has finally gained rest.
"This is for my son. [For] two years, my son could not rest. Now he can rest."
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Prison guard loses appeal against 20 to 40 year sentence
Douglas Tower, 63, a former New Hampshire correctional guard at the Shea Farm halfway house in Concord, lost an appeal against his 20 to 40 year sentence for raping an inmate there. The appeal was based on the argument that New Hampshire prosecutors showed a conflict of interest when prosecuting Tower but defending themselves against civil lawsuits - lawsuits filed by 11 prisoners and a guard who were harassed and raped by Tower. The state is paying a $1.9 million dollar settlement reached in March.
Lothstein also argued that that conflict should have justified quashing the indictments against Tower before going to trial.
The state disputed any conflict, saying the civil suit did not exist when it first indicted Tower. Plus, the state said, it created walls between the civil and criminal bureaus to avoid a conflict or influence between the cases.
In its unanimous decision, the state Supreme Court said it could not consider Lothstein's argument, which cited the state's Rules of Professional Conduct for lawyers, because that was not the same argument made previously to Tower's trial judge.
The court requires that appeal issues be "preserved," meaning raised at the trial stage first so the trial judge has a chance to resolve them.
The justices found that Tower's trial lawyers had argued a conflict of interest at the lower level but did so by citing state and federal constitutional grounds, not the rules of conflict.
Lothstein has 10 days from the date of the order to ask the court to reconsider.
Tower faces a trial for the rapes of 11 other inmates, and was also convicted for the simple assault of a second female inmate.
Lothstein also argued that that conflict should have justified quashing the indictments against Tower before going to trial.
The state disputed any conflict, saying the civil suit did not exist when it first indicted Tower. Plus, the state said, it created walls between the civil and criminal bureaus to avoid a conflict or influence between the cases.
In its unanimous decision, the state Supreme Court said it could not consider Lothstein's argument, which cited the state's Rules of Professional Conduct for lawyers, because that was not the same argument made previously to Tower's trial judge.
The court requires that appeal issues be "preserved," meaning raised at the trial stage first so the trial judge has a chance to resolve them.
The justices found that Tower's trial lawyers had argued a conflict of interest at the lower level but did so by citing state and federal constitutional grounds, not the rules of conflict.
Lothstein has 10 days from the date of the order to ask the court to reconsider.
Tower faces a trial for the rapes of 11 other inmates, and was also convicted for the simple assault of a second female inmate.
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