Tuesday, April 20, 1999
Baby rapist who was rape victim sentenced to 30 years
BY DAN HORN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Thirteen years after he stood in court as a victim of rape, Shawn Brumfield returned Monday as a rapist.
Mr. Brumfield's attorney noted his client's troubled past shortly before the 19-year-old man pleaded guilty to raping his girlfriend's 6-month-old son.
He said it might explain, in part, how someone could repeatedly rape a baby.
“The pattern is created through prior abuse,” said the attorney, Greg Cohen. “My client may not have been fully conscious of the forces working upon him.”
But the baby's mother, Dorie Terrell, said she has no sympathy for Mr. Brumfield be cause her child will pay the price for his cruelty.
“My baby will be able to remember this man forever,” Ms. Terrell said in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. “I ask everybody in this courtroom to have no mercy on this man.”
As part of Mr. Brumfield's plea deal with prosecutors, Judge Thomas Crush sentenced him to 30 years in prison.
If he had been convicted in a trial, he would have faced a possible life sentence.
Assistant Prosecutor Gerald Krumpelbeck said the attacks on the baby occurred Oct. 15 and 16, when Mr. Brumfield was baby-sitting at home.
He said the child suffered serious internal injuries and has been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease.
Mr. Krumpelbeck said the original rape case involving Mr. Brumfield occurred in 1986, when he was 7. Although he did not know whether the case ended in a conviction, Mr. Krumpelbeck said prosecutors charged a man with raping Mr. Brumfield.
“Criminals who offend against children were often abused as children,” Mr. Krumpelbeck said after sentencing.
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