Tuesday, January 5, 2010

No longer on the naughty list, he is on the prison list


How very sad for those two girls.

I hope they will, with time, recover from this predator's crimes and get the peace they so deserve.


Abuser in Santa letter case gets 50 years
By Lynn Brezosky - Express-News

BROWNSVILLE — A Hidalgo County man was sentenced to two 50-year prison terms for sexually abusing of two young girls, a crime unveiled by a letter to Santa.

Andres Enrique Cantu, 57, was convicted in December of two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child after a two-day trial.

It came a year after a fourth-grade teacher of one of the victims was alarmed by the pupil's letter to Santa. The letter, a classroom writing exercise, asked that Cantu's unwanted touching stop and that peace be brought to the household. Cantu lived in the home.

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