Attackers face jail
NZPA New York Two men accused of raping and mutilating a nun in New York last October have been permitted to plead guilty to lesser charges in order to save the nun the “trauma" of appearing at a trial.
Harold Wells, aged 22. and Max Lindeman, aged 23, entered their pleas before Acting Justice Harold Rothman in Manhattan Supreme Court in a plea-bargaining agreement. Under terms of the agreement worked out by lawyers for the defendants, the prosecution and the judge, Lindeman was allowed to plead guilty to sodomy and Wells to burglary. A spokesman for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said the judge indicated that Lindeman would receive a term of 10 to 20 years and Wells a term of five to 15 years when they are sentenced on February 16. The attack on the 30-year-old nun at the Sisters of Charity Convent was one of several against nuns and priests in New York in recent months. Authorities said that a nail file was used by one of the defendants to scratch numerous crosses on the nun’s skin during the attack.
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