Only 16 years for THIS?

A CALIFORNIAN man who imprisoned a woman in his motorhome, drugged her and tortured her with a homemade electrical device has been jailed for 16 years.

A California court was told that Joseph Robert Hendrix, 43, of Oroville, burned the woman's flesh with cigarettes and cigars and burned her cervix with a homemade electrical device. When the woman woke and discovered her wounds were infected, he choked her into unconsciousness, the Associated Press reported today.

He allowed a relative to drive her to a clinic only when he feared she might die. By then, the woman, is in her 30s, had gone into septic shock.

The victim sobbed as Hendrix was sentenced yesterday. Prosecutor Elizabeth Norton called Hendrix a "sexual sadist" and said it was the worst case of cruelty to another human being she had seen, short of murder. Hendrix's lawyer, Jesus Rodriguez, said his client had a long history of drug abuse.

Report here



(And don't forget your ration of Wicked Thoughts for today)