Equatta Youtta Weatherall, 36, prior to now pleaded accountable to aggravated kidnapping for her section in the serious beating of a person in February 2023.
BEAUMONT, Texas — A Beaumont woman has been given 10 years in prison for aggravated kidnapping.
Equatta Youtta Weatherall, 36, prior to now pleaded accountable to aggravated kidnapping for her section in the serious beating of a person in February 2023.
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She gave the impression prior to Judge John Stevens Monday morning at the side of her lawyer to obtain the sentence.
The plea settlement allowed Judge Stevens to provide her as much as 10 years in prison. As a part of the settlement, a similar rate of aggravated attack used to be dropped.
The prosecutor mentioned in court docket that the sufferer misplaced an eye fixed in the assault and mentioned the sufferer gave a commentary that Weatherall gave the look of she used to be playing it the entire time she used to be kicking him.
Judge Stevens sentenced Weatherall to the whole 10 years and mentioned “It’s just not a kidnapping. This was a torture of another human being. That’s inhumane. I can’t imagine treating another human like that.”
Weatherall is one among 4 folks charged for this crime.
On February thirteenth, 2023 in a while after 2:30 p.m. officials with the Beaumont Police Department answered to Autumn Oaks Apartments after receiving a decision about an attack consistent with the possible motive affidavit.
Officers spoke with the sufferer who have been badly overwhelmed at the face and frame for a number of hours, consistent with the affidavit. Both of the sufferer’s eyes have been swollen close and he had a “large swelling” throughout his brow.
Police mentioned the sufferer known Weatherall, Louis Franklin, Rebekah Foyil and Stephen Adams as his assailants.
The sufferer informed police Franklin and Adams dragged him from one condo to their condo in opposition to his will and started punching him in the face. He then informed police he fell and Franklin and Adams started kicking him in the face.
Adams allegedly stomped at the sufferer’s face with steel-toe boots.
Following the attack, the sufferer mentioned the suspects took his pockets and mobile phone from his wallet and demanded his banking information relating to his incapacity cash, consistent with the affidavit.
The sufferer additionally informed officials Weatherall and Foyil have been kicking him at the head whilst he used to be at the flooring. He mentioned Franklin and Adams tied his fingers at the back of his again and dragged him to the bathe.
Once he used to be dragged into the bathe, Franklin and Adams allegedly pressured the sufferer’s head below a working tap, in what a sworn statement calls “waterboarding-style torture.” The suspects additionally reportedly demanded the pin code to the sufferer’s telephone.
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