43 year-old Lee Henkis, a Belize City man convicted of sodomizing a 9-year-old boy, will spend 8 years in prison for it.
As we reported, in his trial the victim testified that in July of 2010, he went to Henkis's house on Dean Street to pick up a 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. And Henkis' depravity got worse when he took out a video camera and videotaped the 9 year-old boy while he was nude.
The boy said that Henkis put back on the clothes, gave him the cell phone he had promised, and sent him home.
In his mitigation hearing today, Henkis called 1 character witness who spoke well of him in their years of interaction when they were growing up.
This witness also recounted that Henkis is now the father of 2 week-old baby boy, and she told the court that she hopes that Henkis will still be able to get to know his son later in life.
Because Henkis had 2 convictions of an unnatural crime, spanning back to the days when it was known as aggravated assault of an indecent nature against 2 other boys, he was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
It is important to note that Henkis spent 9 months for the first unnatural crime, 7 years for the second, and now he will spend 8 more for a crime he committed a little more than a year after his release on the second prison sentence.
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