Now-paralyzed man admits to 2002 rape after rape kit match

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Now-paralyzed man admits to 2002 rape after rape kit match
Updated 10:50 am, Friday, February 10, 2017


MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A now-paralyzed man has pleaded guilty to a rape that occurred in Tennessee more than a decade ago.

Local media outlets report that 49-year-old Albert Evans pleaded guilty this week to raping a woman in 2002 while armed. He received a 10-year suspended sentence and remains in a nursing home.

The crime went unsolved until a match was made on a rape kit in 2014. Evans was paralyzed from injuries in a vehicle crash at some point following the rape. He was arrested in 2015.

Rape kits are used to collected physical evidence of sexual assault. Authorities disclosed in 2013 that more than 12,000 kits had accumulated and not been tested since the 1980s.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Now-paralyzed-man-admits-to-2002-rape-after-rape-10923433.php

[heaven05]

1. Karma

it comes round.....he still should have served some time behind some bars somewhere and have to deal with Gen pop.

[raccoon]

3. Beat me to the post. Karma's a bitch, I was thinking. nt

[trc]

2. 10 year suspended sentence?

While the victim is sentenced to a life of the memory. Almost as if the judiciary in this case thought he had been divinely punished already. Kinda disgusted that there will be no accountability for this man simply because he was subsequently injured.