Montgomery sentenced eight years after crime – lownds signal

In a hearing on May 9, a man was found to be guilty in the rape of a minor in 2017 to be sentenced to thirty years by a court in Lowndes County.

The 33-year-old Anricco Rashad Montgomery was instructed to the Lowndes County prison, shortly after he was found guilty on April 8 in front of the County Circuit Court. He was sentenced to thirty years in prison, followed by 10 years after the supervision.

Montgomery also instructed the judge Cleve Poole to pay a fine of $ 10,000, all court costs assessed by the Circuit Clerk and a compensation assessment of USD 1,000.

Montgomery was charged with two rapes of the first degree based on age, the other due to the power of crime. The accused was also exposed to two charges for first -level sodomy.

According to the district prosecutor Charlotte Tesmer

“We asked [Poole] To judge the rape of a child [charge]”, Said the prosecutor Charlotte Tesmer.” He has raped for Sodomy One for 30 years, then he has the supervision of the subject, which is standard for crimes with a child. “

At the time of crime in July 2017, the victim was only 10 years old. Now 18, Tesmer said, she worked on overcome what happened to her and was part of the bridging of her perpetrator before justice.

“We finally tried him,” said Tesmer. “The little girl is now 18 years old, completed and went into the armed service. She was a good witness and told the story of what happened to her [in a way] That never changed. “

Montgomery stays in the Lowndes County prison and is waiting for the transfer to the Department of Corrections in Alabama.