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Jun 15, 2009 5:55 pm US/Central
Man Who Tortured Mentally Disabled Man Gets 8 Yrs.
HASTINGS, Minn. (WCCO) ―
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Justin Hamilton was twice lured from his home Oct. 10 and 11 of last year, taken to a rural area and tortured for hours. (File)
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Police arrested 21-year-old Jonathon Diepold (upper left), 19-year-old John Maniglia (upper right), 21-year-old Timothy Ketterling (lower left) and 33-year-old Glen Ries (lower right) for allegedly beating a mentally disabled man.
Dakota County
A Northfield man was sentenced to eight years in prison in the beating and torture of a mentally disabled man in Dakota County last fall.
In April, John Maxwell Maniglia, 20, pleaded guilty to kidnapping, third-degree assault and theft.
Maniglia and four others had been charged with beating and torturing 24-year-old Justin Hamilton. Hamilton was twice lured from his home Oct. 10 and 11 of last year, taken to a rural area and tortured for hours.
According to Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom, the sentence was given a double upward durational departure from Minnesota guidelines owing to the cruelty surrounding the attacks.
Court documents said Hamilton was bound to a tree with a belt and was burned with a cigarette lighter and heated credit card.
A 16-year-old girl had told Maniglia that Hamilton had assaulted her, but prosecutors say she made that up. Her case has been completed in juvenile court.
Three other men face charges in the case. Jonathan Michael Diepold, 22, will face trial on July 27. Glen Richard Ries, 34, and Timothy John Ketterling, 22, are scheduled for pretrial conference on June 22.
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