UPDATE: Teen Gets 15 years For Beating 94-year-old WWII Vet
James Wendell Glover Jr., who was 15 at the time of the attack, was charged as an adult and convicted of aggravated assault and robbery of a person over the age of 65 in the beating of Paul Smallwood.
UPDATE: A teenager who nearly beat an elderly man to death during a robbery was sentenced to 15 years in prison this morning in Marietta. ORIGINAL STORY: A Cobb Superior Court jury has found a 16-year-old guilty of beating and robbing a 94-year-old World War II veteran in September, according to the Marietta Daily Journal. James Wendell Glover Jr., who was 15 at the time of the attack, was charged as an adult and convicted of aggravated assault and robbery of a person over the age of 65 in the beating of Paul Smallwood, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The defendant faces up to 40 years in prison when he is sentenced Monday. The victim was returning from a doctor's appointment Sept. 24 when he encountered an 11-year-old boy …
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Pam J
12:41 pm on Monday, August 22, 2011
I don't care if the kid was 15 years old, what he did was vicious. And the fact that he is "remorseful" should not make any difference in his sentencing. If you think that his sentencing was harsh, just go look at the video of the man he beat. more ›