Tiener naar zijn dood gelokt door 'vriendin'

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Teen Lured To His Death With Sex

In Philadelphia, three teenagers were sentenced to life in prison for killing a 16-year-old boy, who was lured to his death by a girl who'd promised him sex.

In May 2003, Jason Sweeney was led to a secluded spot where three boys attacked him with a hatchet, a hammer and rocks. The group took $500 that Sweeney had earned doing construction work and went on a drug binge.

The tone of the sentencing was mostly calm and businesslike, with the exception of statements from the victim's family. Sweeney's father shouted at the defendants.

Justina Morley, the girl who lured Sweeney to his death, made a deal with prosecutors to escape a life sentence by testifying against the others. She was sentenced in March to 17 and a-half to 35 years in prison and will be about 30 when she becomes eligible for parole.
 

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Jason Sweeney, 16, had a new girlfriend—his first. On May 30, 2003, he was on his way to see her. They had been together just two weeks and he planned to bring her over to meet his family the next day. He could hardly have been more excited, and his mother was so pleased for him. Justina Morley, 15, was about to graduate from her eighth grade class at Holy Name of Jesus grammar school. She was a pretty, dark-haired girl from a good family and with a lot of friends. This was a positive turn in Jason's life, in line with his ambition to join the Navy the following year and become a Navy SEAL.



He left his home in Philadelphia's blue-collar neighborhood known as Fishtown, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, at about 4 that afternoon. He told his parents he was going on a date. He had money from his recently cashed paycheck and he was eager to spend it on her. Yet he might have been surprised when Justina invited him to go with her into an isolated, weedy industrial area off Beach Street, known as "the Trails." It was a stone's throw from the Delaware River, near I-95.

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Justina reportedly suggested they have sex and she began taking off her clothes, urging Jason to do the same. A teenage boy enamored of his first girlfriend, he wasn't about to turn her down. He removed his shoes and began to undo his pants. Once he was in a vulnerable position, he looked up to see his best friend and two other boys he knew running at him. They were kids his mother had asked him to stay away from. He didn't know what they had in mind, but he struggled to pull up his pants and run.

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As Morley looked on, doing nothing to intervene or get help, Eddie Batzig lifted a hatchet and struck the first blow to Jason's head. He struck as hard as he could, four or five times. Dominic Coia hit Jason in alternating blows with a hammer, slamming so hard that the hammer stuck in Jason's skull, and the younger Coia beat him with a brick he'd picked up in the trash-strewn area.

"Blood was spurting," Dominic later recalled. "We just kept hitting and hitting him." Supposedly, Dominic did not believe they were really going to do it, that it was just a game, but once Eddie struck the first blow, they all stepped in.

Even as Jason was fending off blows and begging for his life, he realized this had been a trap. His "girlfriend" had played him for a fool. His last words, according to confessions, were, "I'm bleeding," and then to Morley he said, "You set me up."
 

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Op dinsdag 10 mei 2005 08:13 schreef Freeflyer het volgende:
dit is wel heel erg triest
de doodstraf klinkt als een goede optie

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"Eddie swung the hatchet and hit him in his head," she said on the stand. Sweeney "didn't realize what happened. He staggered and he said, 'Yo, man, what's going on?' "

Then, she said, Domenic Coia, "jumped on his back. Nick threw a rock. He fell."

Domenic Coia told police in his confession that the two just kept hitting and hitting Sweeney. Nicky Coia stood farther away and threw several rocks.

Sweeney died of blunt trauma to the head.

His ear was practically sliced off. His mouth was ripped wide open. His teeth were broken. His pale face was puffy and distorted. He was so badly deformed in the beating that cops who saw his body thought he was at least 30 years old.
 

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Op dinsdag 10 mei 2005 09:11 schreef snabbi het volgende:
poe ik heb het hele verhaal nu gelezen maar dan nog vind ik dat die meid er makkelijk vanaf komt. Ze heeft em misschien niet geslagen zoals die andere gasten maar ze is imo net zo schuldig... wat een verhaal

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Op dinsdag 10 mei 2005 09:20 schreef detulp050 het volgende:
Ik zit op de 'Holy Name of Jesus grammar school'
Sorry hoor

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Op dinsdag 10 mei 2005 19:01 schreef gekke_sandra het volgende:

Ik begrijp alleen niet waarom ze het nou hebben gedaan.