Chris Newberry
A Wichita man was sentenced Thursday to life plus 133/4 years in prison for raping his 10-year-old stepdaughter and setting her on fire in an attempt to kill her.
Chris Newberry, 31, pleaded guilty to rape and attempted murder in September 2009 but was then sent to the Larned State Hospital for psychiatric treatment. He was released after doctors deemed further treatment unnecessary.
Newberry also was sentenced to 61 months in prison on each of four counts of aggravated arson. District Judge Jeff Goering followed a plea agreement and ordered those sentences to run concurrently with the others.
Wichita police said Newberry doused his stepdaughter with lighter fluid before setting a fire that heavily damaged his family’s mobile home on March 14, 2009.
Newberry’s wife and three other children, ages 2 to 6, escaped. The stepdaughter, who suffered burns on 40 percent of her body, now lives with a grandmother.
Deputy District Attorney Marc Bennett said after the hearing that the girl is doing well in school but has yet to fully recover from her burns.
“Not only are there emotional scars, there are actual debilitating physical scars that she has to deal with every day,” he said. “It’s hard to wrap your brain around how atrocious this crime was.”e
source:the kansas city star
Chris Newberry, 31, pleaded guilty to rape and attempted murder in September 2009 but was then sent to the Larned State Hospital for psychiatric treatment. He was released after doctors deemed further treatment unnecessary.
Newberry also was sentenced to 61 months in prison on each of four counts of aggravated arson. District Judge Jeff Goering followed a plea agreement and ordered those sentences to run concurrently with the others.
Wichita police said Newberry doused his stepdaughter with lighter fluid before setting a fire that heavily damaged his family’s mobile home on March 14, 2009.
Newberry’s wife and three other children, ages 2 to 6, escaped. The stepdaughter, who suffered burns on 40 percent of her body, now lives with a grandmother.
Deputy District Attorney Marc Bennett said after the hearing that the girl is doing well in school but has yet to fully recover from her burns.
“Not only are there emotional scars, there are actual debilitating physical scars that she has to deal with every day,” he said. “It’s hard to wrap your brain around how atrocious this crime was.”e
source:the kansas city star
