43 year-old Lee Henkis is at prison tonight awaiting sentencing after he was convicted of an unnatural crime before Justice Troadio Gonzalez today.
His victim, an 11 year-old boy, who was 9 at the time, testified that on July 4, 2010, he went to Henkis's house on Dean Street to pick up a blue phone which Henkis had promised him earlier that day.
The boy said that Henkis took him to a bedroom, took off his clothes, and sodomized him.
If you're appalled by that information it gets worse because the boy told the court that after Henkis sodomized him, he took out a video camera and began to videotape him.
The boy said that Henkis put back on the child's clothes, gave him the cell phone he had promised, and sent him home.
In his defense, Henkis who was unrepresented gave a dock statement. In his unsworn testimony, Henkis claim that he did take the boy fishing but that he never had sex with him.
After deliberating for 3 and half hours, the jury found Henkis guilty of the charge.
His sentencing hearing will take place on November 28, to give him time to prepare a mitigation plea.
It is important to note that Henkis is a convicted sex offender, and he voluntarily told the court that he spent time in prison after he was convicted before. To try to preserve his defence, the court quickly silenced him before he could prejudice himself any further.
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