June 17, 200421 yr I hope this MF'er gets assulted each and every single day while he's in prison!! http://www.nbc5.com/news/3425538/detail.html Dad Gets 50 Years For Raping Child Who Killed Self POSTED: 1:21 pm EDT June 16, 2004 SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A father was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison Wednesday for raping his 11-year-old daughter, who later hanged herself. Timothy Lucie, 46, stood stoically as Onondaga County Judge William Walsh imposed back-to-back sentences of 25 years to life for his conviction on first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy charges. Lucie said nothing before Walsh sentenced him. His wife, Andrea Lucie, hurried from the courtroom in tears, refusing to talk to reporters. She testified in her husband's defense. "In all my years on this planet, I've never been at a loss for words. Today, I am," Walsh said. "My sentence will have to speak for me." Walsh said he would recommend that Lucie serve his sentence at the Clinton Correctional Facility, in a special program that isolates inmates who may be at risk from other prisoners because of the crimes they committed. Lucie was convicted last month following an eight-day trial. He also was convicted of endangering the welfare of a child. He has appealed his conviction. Lucie was accused of sexually assaulting his daughter, Valerie, in the shower at their Syracuse home Sept. 30. Hours later her 8-year-old brother found her hanging from her bedpost by a dogcollar and leash in what police said was an apparent suicide. A furniture business owner, Lucie confessed to the rape after a six-hour interrogation on Oct. 13. He then recanted as police prepared to put the confession on videotape. Lucie claimed his confession was coerced by police, who he said threatened to arrest his wife and take away his four younger sons if he didn't admit to the sexual attack. Defense attorney Ken Moynihan had little to say, other than objecting to prosecutors' characterization that Lucie was not remorseful about this daughter's death. Moynihan said Lucie "deeply misses" his daughter, but prosecutors never gave him the chance to properly grieve because they immediately made him the subject of a criminal investigation. Chief Assistant District Attorney Christine Garvey asked Walsh to give Lucie 50 years in prison, saying he "deserved every second in state prison that this court can sentence him to." Garvey said there is typically a time at sentencing when family members are allowed to speak on behalf of the victim. "But there is no one from Valerie Lucie's family to be that child's voice. It is truly sad. An 11-year-old is dead and she doesn't have anybody from her family -- not her aunts or her uncles, or her grandparents, to say what a wonderful child she was, how she was loved and how she will be missed," Garvey said. Instead, Garvey read a short letter composed by Leslie Plucknette, Valerie's former third-grade teacher at Fairbanks Road Elementary School in the Churchville-Chili School District near Rochester. Plucknette sat through the entire trial and was in her usual second-row seat for Wednesday's sentencing. Plucknette's letter described Valerie as an engaging, excitable child, "a petite, little girl with a smile as wide as her braids were long." Plucknette said Valerie "sang with the voice of an angel," and was the star of her third-grade class' performance of "Charlotte's Web." After court, Plucknette stood in the hallway, showing off a photograph of Valerie at a party with some friends. "If he stays in jail for 50 years, that would be justice," she said. Several jurors also attended the sentencing. Foreman Michael Spado said he, too, was there for Valerie. "That poor little girl only had 11 years. Fifty years is a satisfactory sentence but it can't bring Valerie back," Spado said. Spado said the jury was not allowed to consider Valerie's death as it deliberated the case. However, Spado said he personally held Lucie responsible for Valerie's death.
June 17, 200421 yr I read this on NBC yesterday...it made me sick. It's bad enough what happened to the little girl, but then to not have one family member speak up for her is unforgiveable.
June 17, 200421 yr I read this on NBC yesterday...it made me sick. It's bad enough what happened to the little girl, but then to not have one family member speak up for her is unforgiveable. Amen. This guy will gets his just rewards.
June 17, 200421 yr Amen. This guy will gets his just rewards. I hope that worthless wife of his does as well..f***ing b****. Sorry, but to not give a voice to your dead daughter (killed by your husband) is sickening...
June 17, 200421 yr People who harm or molest children get "Special" treatment by their fellow prisoners... ...He'll get his...
June 17, 200421 yr I hope that f***er that raped my girlfriend gets the same exact f***ing treatment. :fyou
June 17, 200421 yr I hope this MF'er gets assulted each and every single day while he's in prison!! http://www.nbc5.com/news/3425538/detail.html Dad Gets 50 Years For Raping Child Who Killed Self POSTED: 1:21 pm EDT June 16, 2004 SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A father was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison Wednesday for raping his 11-year-old daughter, who later hanged herself. Timothy Lucie, 46, stood stoically as Onondaga County Judge William Walsh imposed back-to-back sentences of 25 years to life for his conviction on first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy charges. Lucie said nothing before Walsh sentenced him. His wife, Andrea Lucie, hurried from the courtroom in tears, refusing to talk to reporters. She testified in her husband's defense. "In all my years on this planet, I've never been at a loss for words. Today, I am," Walsh said. "My sentence will have to speak for me." Walsh said he would recommend that Lucie serve his sentence at the Clinton Correctional Facility, in a special program that isolates inmates who may be at risk from other prisoners because of the crimes they committed. Lucie was convicted last month following an eight-day trial. He also was convicted of endangering the welfare of a child. He has appealed his conviction. Lucie was accused of sexually assaulting his daughter, Valerie, in the shower at their Syracuse home Sept. 30. Hours later her 8-year-old brother found her hanging from her bedpost by a dogcollar and leash in what police said was an apparent suicide. A furniture business owner, Lucie confessed to the rape after a six-hour interrogation on Oct. 13. He then recanted as police prepared to put the confession on videotape. Lucie claimed his confession was coerced by police, who he said threatened to arrest his wife and take away his four younger sons if he didn't admit to the sexual attack. Defense attorney Ken Moynihan had little to say, other than objecting to prosecutors' characterization that Lucie was not remorseful about this daughter's death. Moynihan said Lucie "deeply misses" his daughter, but prosecutors never gave him the chance to properly grieve because they immediately made him the subject of a criminal investigation. Chief Assistant District Attorney Christine Garvey asked Walsh to give Lucie 50 years in prison, saying he "deserved every second in state prison that this court can sentence him to." Garvey said there is typically a time at sentencing when family members are allowed to speak on behalf of the victim. "But there is no one from Valerie Lucie's family to be that child's voice. It is truly sad. An 11-year-old is dead and she doesn't have anybody from her family -- not her aunts or her uncles, or her grandparents, to say what a wonderful child she was, how she was loved and how she will be missed," Garvey said. Instead, Garvey read a short letter composed by Leslie Plucknette, Valerie's former third-grade teacher at Fairbanks Road Elementary School in the Churchville-Chili School District near Rochester. Plucknette sat through the entire trial and was in her usual second-row seat for Wednesday's sentencing. Plucknette's letter described Valerie as an engaging, excitable child, "a petite, little girl with a smile as wide as her braids were long." Plucknette said Valerie "sang with the voice of an angel," and was the star of her third-grade class' performance of "Charlotte's Web." After court, Plucknette stood in the hallway, showing off a photograph of Valerie at a party with some friends. "If he stays in jail for 50 years, that would be justice," she said. Several jurors also attended the sentencing. Foreman Michael Spado said he, too, was there for Valerie. "That poor little girl only had 11 years. Fifty years is a satisfactory sentence but it can't bring Valerie back," Spado said. Spado said the jury was not allowed to consider Valerie's death as it deliberated the case. However, Spado said he personally held Lucie responsible for Valerie's death. From 218 births of minors in VA to this .. what the hell is going on? Is it simply that all this stuff has been happening forever & we're just better at reporting it today or is there something more to this? Lab rat time.
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