Thursday, December 27, 2007 From staff reports
Waynesboro Record Herald (Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, USA)
CHAMBERSBURG - A former Hagerstown man who recently was convicted of raping of two young women was sentenced to 34 to 170 years in state prison Wednesday by Franklin County Judge John R. Walker.
Pov Srun, 36, a native of Cambodia, was convicted during an October trial of abducting and assaulting two young women - one in Waynesboro and one in Chambersburg - in 2004.
The jury announced Srun, who wore pieces of duct tape over his face during the assaults, was guilty of two counts each of kidnapping, rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and robbery of a motor vehicle, all first-degree felonies.
Srun also was found guilty of third-degree felony counts of false imprisonment of a person under the age of 18 and unlawful restraint; two misdemeanor counts of unlawful restraint and false imprisonment; and two counts each of sexual, aggravated and indecent assault, making terroristic threats and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. The jury cleared Srun of two counts of simple assault.
No compassion
Srun accused the judge of lacking compassion after Walker said the sentence was to alert others that Srun's behavior would not be taken lightly. Srun compared his sentence to that of a double homicide. The fact that Srun reportedly found religion while serving a 35-year sentence in Maryland on two similar charges was not taken into account by Walker. He told Srun if he wanted mercy he should go to church.
Srun's wife, Cindy, pleaded with Walker to lower the sentence because his behavior wasn't typical of the man she knows. She also told Walker that Srun had been molested when he was younger.
The assaults
During Srun's October trial, two young women described how a man wearing duct tape or a mask over his face forced his way into their vehicles, drove them to unknown locations and sexually assaulted them in September 2004.
One of the women was 16 at the time Srun forced his way into her vehicle in the Waynesboro Mall parking lot on Sept. 16, 2004. Less than two weeks later, Srun forced his way into a 20-year-old woman's car in the Weis Market parking lot on Chambersburg's Wayne Avenue.
The first girl said he apologized for what he did.
According to evidence, Srun's attacks became more violent with each assault.
Srun pleaded guilty to two other assaults that occurred in 2005 in Montgomery County, Md.
Srun could have opted for a plea agreement for a lesser sentence, but pleaded not guilty and requested a jury trial in Pennsylvania in August 2007. He had pleaded not guilty in March 2006 to the two Maryland assaults. However, he withdrew that plea and pleaded guilty to one count each of second-degree rape and sexual offense in the first degree. He did not testify during the trial.
Srun's sentence in Pennsylvania will begin once he completes his Maryland sentence. If he ever makes parole, he will have to register as a sexually violent predator under Pennsylvania's Megan's Law.
Pov Srun, 36, a native of Cambodia, was convicted during an October trial of abducting and assaulting two young women - one in Waynesboro and one in Chambersburg - in 2004.
The jury announced Srun, who wore pieces of duct tape over his face during the assaults, was guilty of two counts each of kidnapping, rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and robbery of a motor vehicle, all first-degree felonies.
Srun also was found guilty of third-degree felony counts of false imprisonment of a person under the age of 18 and unlawful restraint; two misdemeanor counts of unlawful restraint and false imprisonment; and two counts each of sexual, aggravated and indecent assault, making terroristic threats and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. The jury cleared Srun of two counts of simple assault.
No compassion
Srun accused the judge of lacking compassion after Walker said the sentence was to alert others that Srun's behavior would not be taken lightly. Srun compared his sentence to that of a double homicide. The fact that Srun reportedly found religion while serving a 35-year sentence in Maryland on two similar charges was not taken into account by Walker. He told Srun if he wanted mercy he should go to church.
Srun's wife, Cindy, pleaded with Walker to lower the sentence because his behavior wasn't typical of the man she knows. She also told Walker that Srun had been molested when he was younger.
The assaults
During Srun's October trial, two young women described how a man wearing duct tape or a mask over his face forced his way into their vehicles, drove them to unknown locations and sexually assaulted them in September 2004.
One of the women was 16 at the time Srun forced his way into her vehicle in the Waynesboro Mall parking lot on Sept. 16, 2004. Less than two weeks later, Srun forced his way into a 20-year-old woman's car in the Weis Market parking lot on Chambersburg's Wayne Avenue.
The first girl said he apologized for what he did.
According to evidence, Srun's attacks became more violent with each assault.
Srun pleaded guilty to two other assaults that occurred in 2005 in Montgomery County, Md.
Srun could have opted for a plea agreement for a lesser sentence, but pleaded not guilty and requested a jury trial in Pennsylvania in August 2007. He had pleaded not guilty in March 2006 to the two Maryland assaults. However, he withdrew that plea and pleaded guilty to one count each of second-degree rape and sexual offense in the first degree. He did not testify during the trial.
Srun's sentence in Pennsylvania will begin once he completes his Maryland sentence. If he ever makes parole, he will have to register as a sexually violent predator under Pennsylvania's Megan's Law.
5 comments:
You did thr crime, you pay your time.
You once were a slave, and now you're slave once again. Once you're slave, you'll always be a slave.
Your slavery have blinded your conscience and made you an ignorant slave, which you have become so conspicuous that you were unable to hide yourself from the society.
He will get kill in prison!
I always thought that human sexual desire can be suppressed because human is not like animal which use its instinct!
Any sexual predators don't deserve to live with human society because they are animal!
Yet another faggat!
I'm certain that anything that moves will turn you (9:34 AM)and the rest of Khmer people on. You Khmer are fucking stupid.
To 1:30PM! Fucken bonehead!
Tell me you know how to read the English language stupid mother fucker!
I know who I am and what are you?
It takes one to know one in this case you are a fucken faggot yourself mother fucker! You think Khmer are fucken stupid and that is why you are not getting anything from Khmer and now you are mad as hell!
Hey! If you want get some from me and you better turn around and bend over mother fucker! Ahahahha
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