Chicago's finest release psycho attacker early after he did this to a woman -- all because she didn't give him a cigarette.In the photo, Jennifer Hall sits beside her boyfriend, Joe Hoffman. Her hair cascaded down both sides of her face and her lips were parted in a half-smile. It was Aug. 25, 2008, her 36th birthday."My hair was down to my waist for 20 years," she said. "I woke up bald -- no teeth, 85 staples in my head -- out of a drug-induced coma.
"Two hours after the photo was taken, Hall and Hoffman were attacked by a homeless man, Derrick King, near Wabash Avenue and Roosevelt Road, after telling him they didn't have any cigarettes. King and a second person then beat, stomped and kicked Hall unconscious, she said.
When King, 48, pleaded guilty this October to two criminal charges in the attack and was sentenced to three years in prison, Hall and Hoffman thought he wouldn't be able to harm anyone else -- at least for a while.
But just 18 days after that plea, state records show, King was paroled as part of the early-release program that Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday called "a big mistake."
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I gots an idea, lets stomp the criminal's face in, knock his teeth out, and shave him bald, and then lock him up.
It must be hard for her that her attacker does not get punished. It reminds me of a similar story here in Montreal. The woman got badly disfigured, spent 2 months in a coma and is handicapped for life. Her attacker spent only 6 months in jail before his sentencing. Two years less a day to be served in the community. The punishment does not fit the crime in this case either.
http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090427/mtl_nidjilsky_090427/20090427/?hub=MontrealHome
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