Ryan C. Gifford had used a lot of heroin that day and drank wine and other alcohol, his lawyer said. "He was high pretty much the entire evening," said his lawyer, Lee McNulty.
That is why his client had no recollection, he said, of assaulting, burning and sexually abusing a 21-month-old child on an April night last year, acts that doctors said almost killed the toddler and for which Gifford received a 50-year prison sentence — half of it suspended — in a Westminster courtroom Thursday.
Carroll County Circuit Judge J. Barry Hughes addressed the 24-year-old defendant and decried the "depraved and selfish torture that you inflicted on this child," a crime that he called "heinous and beyond the pale."
Prosecutors said Gifford stuffed a sock into the girl's mouth during the attack, causing her to lose consciousness. The burns on her body were apparently made by Gifford with a cigarette to prompt her to come around, and there was evidence that she was raped, according to court documents.
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People like this need to be executed with a bullet to the back of the head. No trial, no appeal, no lengthy "life in prison", no court appointed lawyer, no BS legal-system justice. Just bullet to the head and union worker to shovel up the remains (ha!). Same goes for Leggs. At the very least, pedophiles should get mandatory LIFE senteces, w/o the possibility of parole. When will we start protecting our prescious and innocent children? And who is the Cecil county judge that said "no contact with children under 8"??? WTF??? As if it's ok to let him hang around your 10 year old daughter? 25 years? That's it??? If we want to clean up this country, we should start by cleaning out the justice system and ridding it of these soft liberal fat-cat judges that do nothing but protect the rights of monsters and criminals.
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