A 51-year-old Ohio man who was convicted of defiling his girlfriend’s
5-year-old girl blamed the little girl for his crime during his
sentencing.
Huff’Post reports:
Clifford Taylor, a 51-year-old former research scientist,
was given the maximum sentence of 22 years on Nov. 12, the News-Herald
reported.
In October, Taylor admitted in court to molesting his girlfriend’s
daughter while baby-sitting her sometime between May and July of last
year, according to Cleveland.com. The child later told her mother, who went to authorities. Taylor was convicted on two counts of r*pe.
During his sentencing, Taylor blamed his defense lawyer for
suggesting the plea deal he had earlier agreed to take “I was threatened
with mental incompetence,” Taylor said of his lawyer. “He threatened
me, saying there was some reason I wasn’t thinking properly.”
Judge Eugene A. Lucci wasn’t buying the excuse, and explained that
Taylor’s lawyer was only asking his client if a hearing to determine his
mental competency would be necessary.
Taylor avoided spending his life in prison when he admitted to defiling the child,
telling a court that he got drunk and bribed the child with Pudding
Pops to perform oral s*x on him. “I did not stop the child. That’s the
part the prosecutor will get me on,” he said at the time. “She wanted a
snack.”
