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"Re: Eric Morel Sentenced to Two Years for Sexual Assault

From: gary7666@xxxxxxxxx (Gary N.)
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:09:18 GMT

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/etc/oct05/362495.asp

Morel gets two years in prison
By MARK STEWART
mstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Posted: Oct. 11, 2005
Madison - Calling Eric Morel's actions "degrading" and "depraved,"
Judge C. William Foust sentenced the former world boxing champion to
prison for two years followed by two years probation for his role in
the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.

Foust handed down the sentence Tuesday afternoon in Dane County
Circuit Court after listening to more than an hour of testimony that
included a letter from the victim as well as a handful of Morel's
family members and former manager Bob Lynch, who each spoke on behalf
of Morel's character.

Foust also prohibited Morel, 30, from having contact with minors
following his release unless he gets the approval of his probation
officer. There is a chance he'll have to register as a sex offender
although the court will determine that matter at a later date.

The sentence was stiffer than the prosecution or defense recommended.

In June, Morel agreed to a plea agreement in which he pleaded no
contest to the charge. In return, the district attorney agreed not to
ask for confined prison time in Morel's case.

Instead, the prosecutor recommended Morel receive five years probation
and one year of jail time, which could have meant house arrest or an
arrangement that would allow him the freedom to leave the jail for
work.

Morel's attorney, Victor Arellano, recommended that his client receive
no more than 6 months house arrest and probation.

However, Foust thought a stiffer sentence was necessary, stating:
"This kind of sexual contact with a passed out 15-year-old is too
shocking and too outrageous. It's a set of facts where I have to say
the line is here and you've gone beyond that."

In June 2004, Morel and his brothers, Frederick Orlando Santos-Perez
and Samuel Morel, were charged with second-degree sexual assault
stemming from an incident Dec. 1, 2002, inside a Fitchburg apartment.

According to police, a friend of the victim who was also at the
apartment, said Santos-Perez had sex with the 15-year-old while Morel
watched. The friend told police she later returned to the room and
found the victim passed out on a bed as a number of men stood around
her.

The victim told police she didn't remember the incident but that when
she awoke the next morning the inside of her legs hurt and her lip was
swollen. A medical exam taken the next day confirmed those injuries.

Morel submitted to a DNA test, which connected him to semen found on
the girl and her clothing.

Morel pleaded not guilty to the charge last August, but admitted
Tuesday that he had a role in the incident.

A prepared statement he read before court said, in part:

"I take full responsibility for my participation," he said. "I hope
that some day the victim can find it in her heart to forgive my
transgressions."

The prison time could permanently stall what Morel hoped would be a
comeback in boxing.

The 1996 Olympian and former 112-pound world champion lost two of his
last four fights. In July his fight with super flyweight champion
Fernando Montiel was cancelled after the Nevada State Athletic
Commission suspended his license because of his no-contest plea.

However, the only fight Morel was concerned with on Tuesday was the
one for his freedom. He cried as family members spoke of the loving
person they knew him to be and broke down again as he read his
statement.

A few feet away the victim watched with her family.

She attended the hearing but didn't speak. However, in a letter to the
court she said she'd moved away from her hometown because she felt
"dirty" and "humiliated" by the incident and joined the Wisconsin
National Guard Challenge Academy in order to "toughen myself, make
myself stronger, make myself forget."

It hasn't worked.

"How has all this affected me? Well, to be honest, I'm still very sick
about it all, I'm still very sad, still very upset," she said in the
letter. "And I don't think I will ever forget what has happened to me.
I don't think I ever will." "

 

Concepcion-Santiago: This fight's a good match, except for Santiago's low blows.

Penalosa-Morel: Morel is fast, Penalosa could not at times find him until the late rounds. Although Morel's punches were mostly blocked, his punches made Penalosa's face swollen (except for the accidental headbutts).

Morales-Montiel: ****in mismatch

Donaire-Vargas: FUUUUCKIN MISMATCH!


Should have been Donaire-Montiel, and that's a better Latin Fury/Pinoy Power...

 

Penalosa should be retiring by now.

 

Why? He was a world champion just last year and he was just in an eliminator bout that people seem to think he got jobbed out of a decision for.

 

He is slipping. Big time.

He was manhandled rather pitifully by Lopez, didn't you see that?

He will make a good trainer, though.

 

JuanMa is a big ****in' Super Bantamweight...Gerry is a small Bantamweight. No surprise what happened there.

 

Exactly. And furthermore, while he's of course faded, just as Mosley is faded, he is just like Mosley, championship caliber. I did see the Lopez fight. Who is calling for the retirement of the previous three Lopez opponents who didn't make it out of the first ****ing round? How many rounds did Gerry go with him?

 

Gerry was moving up there, given but still, it looked like a mismatch. He was turned into a moving punching bag.

I don't think we can say he is still on top of his game right now. This recent fight showed an old skilled warrior who is slipping.

 

Ponce De Leon is young. You won't ask him to retire just because he was bamboozled by Lopez.

But Gerry is what? 37 years old? Plying his trade at lower weights. It is as if he is not getting tagged a lot in his last few fights, he is, and that is not a good sign. He is a tremendous warrior, but he is showing vulnerability, and this fight proves it.

 

Gerry got hit with as many clean shots as he usually does, he didn't take any punishment in this fight really and from round 6 onwards, I struggled to give Morel a round. You sound like you didn't watch the fight matey.

 

Concepcion vs Santiago should have been the main event...

bad decision for penalosa.. he's connecting more and the aggressor on round 3++

Donaire is a missmatch.. and LOL at the delayed reaction by Vargas...

Yup Morales is the Billy Dib of Phil.. lol!... lack of training.. should work more on his body like d Pacmonster

 

Penalosa have geat skills but his body is past it. He should retire.

 

Morel actually just attacked him, and Penalosa was only showing spots of his offense.

I don't think it was really a robbery. A close fight that a younger Penalosa would have made a comfortable unanimous decision in his favor.

 

Ciso truly deserves his name Kid Terrible

 

interesting to see the rbr scores for the penalosa fight, the commentating, and the judges scores