The guy pictured above is Benjamin Lawrence Petty. He was recently convicted of the heinous, despicable crime of tying up a 13-year-old girl and raping her at the Falls Creek Church Camp.
Earlier this week, he received his sentence – 15 years of probation.
Via NewsOK.com:
In an unusual plea deal, a Spencer man has been sentenced to 15 years on probation after pleading guilty to brutally raping and sodomizing a 13-year-old girl at Falls Creek church camp.
Benjamin Lawrence Petty, 36, tied rope around the girl's wrists, raped her and then threatened her with physical harm if she told anyone, according to the criminal charge. He was at the camp as a cook at the time of the 2016 offense.
Murray County Assistant District Attorney David Pyle, who negotiated the guilty plea, said Petty is "legally blind" and that was a major factor in his decision not to insist on prison time.
Yeah, that's right. The guy who could see well enough to cook food at a church camp, and tie up and brutally rape a 13-year-old girl, is too "blind" to serve time in prison. What the fuck?! Oklahoma is one of the most aggressive, unsympathetic states in the country when it comes to prison sentencing, and we let this guy off the hook because he can't see well enough to hangout in a jail cell? How's that possible? It makes me wonder if there is some sick True Detective stuff going on between the Falls Creek Church Camp, local law enforcement, and Oklahoma Baptist Convention.