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After 34-year-old Pov Srun pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of two teenage girls in Montgomery County, Maryland (he’s accused of similar crimes in Pennsylvania), his wife, Cindy Michelle Srun, also 34, testified at a March sentencing hearing that because of her overbearing personality and numerous infidelities she was partly responsible for his actions. The judge gave him 35 years anyway.
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In April the city of Espanola, New Mexico, agreed to pay $221,000 into an education fund for Jerry Trujillo to settle a lawsuit filed by his family over a 2004 incident. After being sent to his elementary school counselor’s office for misbehaving, Jerry, then eight years old, allegedly threw a tantrum and refused to return to class. The school called the police, who handcuffed the child and took him to the city jail; he was issued a citation for disorderly conduct (saying he was “out of control”), dressed in an orange jumpsuit, and detained in a holding cell (while adult inmates nearby taunted him) until his parents could arrive.
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