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Michael Donnell Matthews

Every so often, we get to hear a case of "he said, she said" when dealing with sexually oriented crimes. Sometimes, it's hard to tell which side is true, and which side is nothing more than a desperate attempt to explain away something without having to accept responsibility for it.
For Michael Donnell Matthews, his cries of "don't blame me" fell upon deaf ears. Of course, that may have something to do with the fact that the "she" in this case was under the age of seven, and despite Matthews' best attempts- no one was buying the whole "she came on to me" line he was selling.
Matthews didn't take the news so well:
A convicted child molester banged his head on a courtroom wall before falling to the floor this week when he was sentenced to 40 years for assaulting a young child and giving her a sexually transmitted disease.

Circuit Court Judge David Strong on Thursday sentenced Michael Donnell Matthews, 23, to 40 years in prison, ordering him to spend 30 years with no possibility of parole.

Matthews pleaded guilty to sexual battery of a child under 7 in the case involving a May 22 attack.

Shortly after Strong announced the sentence, Matthews purposely hit his head against the courtroom wall, crying that he had nothing to live for. Matthews then fell on the floor onto his back.

After his less than noteworthy display of pouting, he further attempted to sway sympathy his way by screaming out "Police brutality, police brutality."

Someone ought to sit down and have a chat with Matthews, and explain to him just was "brutality" really is. Perhaps the doctor that discovered his victim, remember- she's under seven, had contracted gonorrhea and showed signs of sexual abuse.




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