Convicted sex offender Wesley Watson pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of attempted rape, kidnapping and aggravated sexual battery. Watson, 55, was accused of posing as a cop, kidnapping
a woman and raping her in the parking lot of a Best Buy on
Parallel
Parkway in Kansas City, Kansas, in December.
According to KMBC Channel 9, Watson admitted it all in court on Wednesday.
"I engaged in a conversation with the victim in the Wal-Mart parkingKnowing that this all could have been prevented makes it sickening.lot," Watson said in court Wednesday. "I talked her into getting into my
car and drove over to the Best Buy. I ordered her to get undressed and
then touched her body. I did that with the intent to have sexual
intercourse."
When the judge questioned Watson further, he said hehad to force the woman into his car and that he attempted to have sex
with the woman, not just having the intent to.
1977 and rape and aggravated assault in 1980. (In one of the rapes, Watson followed a 14-year-old girl home from school,
broke into her home and raped her.)
The Kansas Parole Board granted him parole in January 2009. Sedgwick County authorities tried to have Watson committed
indefinitely as a sexual predator to the Larned State
Mental Hospital, but Watson's defense reportedly
presented two
psychiatrists who testified that Watson wasn't dangerous. They were
wrong, but a Wichita jury deadlocked and Watson was released in January 2010.
The fact that Watson was paroled 30 years early -- he served 30 years of
a 60 year sentence -- is such bullshit.
Watson's sentencing is scheduled for April 1.
Watson is reportedly facing up to life in prison. Let's hope mistakes aren't made again.
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