Linda Weston Sentence,A Philadelphia woman who kept mentally disabled adults bound in the basement of her home so that she could aggregate and banknote their affliction checks was bedevilled to activity additional 80 years in bastille Thursday.Linda Weston, 55, pleaded accusable in September to all 196 counts adjoin her, which included kidnapping, racketeering, cabal and annihilation in aid of racketeering, abhorrence crimes, sex trafficking and fraud, Philly.com reports. Two women who had been captivated in Weston's basement afterwards died.
According to the account site, Weston's alarming arrangement was baldheaded in October 2011 afterwards her freeholder apparent four adults, one of whom was chained to a boiler, in the basement of her home. The freeholder contacted police, who abstruse that Weston acclimated "cunning, trickery, force and coercion" to argue the disabled adults to account Weston as their caretaker. Weston again calm and cashed the victims' Social Security checks, accretion some $212,000 over 10 years.
Investigators begin that from 2001 to 2011, Weston, her babe and three others kept six adults and four accouchement bound in the basement, attic or closets of her home. Prosecutors said Weston generally fatigued her victims, and if she did augment them, aliment and drinks were generally abstemious with sedatives, Philly.com reports.
"When the individuals approved to escape, blanket aliment or contrarily protested their treatment, Weston and others punished them by slapping, punching, kicking, stabbing, afire and hitting them with bankrupt hands, belts, sticks, bats and hammers or added objects, including the base of a pistol," prosecutors said, Philly.com reports.
When Weston and her ancestors lived in Texas and Florida, Weston reportedly affected two of the women in her affliction into prostitution.
Philly.com letters that two added defendants accept pleaded accusable in the case and two added are apprehension trial.
During her sentencing, Weston apologized: "I accept in God and God knows what happened."
To which, according to Philly.com, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe replied, "There are a lot of humans in this attorneys who apperceive what happened, too."
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