NewsJune 29, 2002
Four teen-agers sentenced for attacks on elderly migrant farm w
SAN DIEGO -- Four teen-agers who severely beat five elderly Mexican farm workers were sentenced Friday to terms ranging from four months in a youth detention camp to time in adult prisons. In sentencing the teen-agers, Judge James Milliken cited the severity of the attack on the men -- all in their 60s and 70s -- in a remote canyon in July 2000...
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SAN DIEGO -- Four teen-agers who severely beat five elderly Mexican farm workers were sentenced Friday to terms ranging from four months in a youth detention camp to time in adult prisons.
In sentencing the teen-agers, Judge James Milliken cited the severity of the attack on the men -- all in their 60s and 70s -- in a remote canyon in July 2000.
The teen-agers who were sentenced were among eight boys who, according to prosecutors, hunted down and attacked the workers out of racial hatred.
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The teen-agers pleaded no contest to charges that included assault with a deadly weapon with a special hate-crime allegation, elder abuse and robbery.
The other defendants will be sentenced next month.
One of the victims, Alfredo Sanchez, 64, said he still has five BB pellets embedded in his body.
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