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Teenage wrestler sentenced to attend
military school after pleading guilty to
attacking an opponet's eyes during a match
DALLAS (AP) — AT 7-year-old on tri
al for an eye-gouging attack that left an
other teenager nearly blind pleaded
guilty yesterday and was sentenced to
time in a military school.
The wrestler at Richardson's J.J.
Pierce High School was charged in ju
venile court with aggravated assault
in the April 1 9th attack of 1 6-year-old
Jason Prickett.
Jurors had been deadlocked in the
case since deliberations started last
Thursday.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the
charge against him, and state District
Judge Hal Gaither sentenced him to at
tend a military prep school in Philadel
phia until his 1 8th birthday.
He had faced up to 20 years in state
custody before he struck the plea bargain.
The teen-ager, who is not being
named because he was on trial as a ju
venile, testified last week that he had
tried wrestling moves on Prickett but
had to resort to going for the eyes.
"I was extremely scared," the ac
cused teen said.
During closing arguments Thursday,
defense attorney David Scoggins called
his client a "man of courage" for de
fending himself and his friends.
But prosecutors asked jurors if the
defendant was "a man of courage or a
man you should fear?"
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