A legally blind man who tied up then brutally raped and sodomized a 13-year-old girl at Falls Creek church camp in Oklahoma, will serve no time in prison for his crime because a local district attorney didn’t think his time there would be “meaningful.”
The camp which is hosted at a conference center owned and operated by the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, is considered the world’s largest summer youth camp.
In a plea deal The Oklahoman called “unusual” Tuesday, Murray County Assistant District Attorney David Pyle agreed to sentence 36-year-old Benjamin Lawrence Petty to 15 years on probation after he pleaded guilty to brutally raping and sodomizing the 13-year-old girl at the camp.
Court documents say Petty, who was working as a cook at the camp, tied rope around the girl’s wrists, raped her and then threatened her with physical harm if she told anyone.
Pyle told The Oklahoman that the main factor in recommending no jail time for Petty is that he was “legally blind” at the time of the crime. People who are legally blind, according to WebMD, “can still see — just not that clearly. That means if an object is 200 feet away, you have to stand 20 feet from it in order to see it…
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