Rot In Hell: Convicted Child Sex Abuser Has Hung Himself Before Sentencing

[Sugar Cookie]

A 41-year-old man who didn’t appear for the last day of his trial for sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl has apparently taken his own life before he could serve any time.

A jury in Galveston, Texas had convicted Richard Jay Duplessis of continuous sexual abuse of a child and sentenced him to life in prison on Thursday, July 20. The defendant, however, wasn’t in court to hear his fate that day. Authorities searched for him — a search that reached a morbid end days later.

“Richard Jay Duplessis was found Tuesday, July 25, hanged, in a home in the 3500 block of Ave. S 1/2, Galveston,” Assistant Criminal District Attorney Brent Haynes wrote in a press statement to Law&Crime. “The decedent’s identify was confirmed by an investigator with the Galveston County District Attorney’s Office. The mother and godmother of the decedent also confirmed the decedent’s identity to the Galveston Police Department.”

During the punishment phase of Duplessis’s trial, jurors took only 10 minutes to decide to sentence him to the maximum possible: life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Prosecutors said one victim stepped forward on Aug. 12, 2022 to say that Duplessis had sexually assaulted her since she was 6. The abuse began in May 2021 and ended in February 2022, authorities said.

The trial, which began on July 18, showed testimony from two other victims who Duplessis sexually abused when they were children, according to prosecutors.

Convicted child sex abuser who skipped trial before jurors sentenced him to life has hung himself: Cops

A man who skipped court instead of facing his fate from the jurors who ultimately convicted and sentenced him to life for sexually abusing a young girl was found dead on Tuesday.

lawandcrime.com

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

Coward.

 

[Josh P]

Now he's serving life at the cemetery.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

He did the world a favor.

 

[thuumpr]

Heard the afterlife is a helluva good time and couldn't wait.

 

[Satanica]

Good!

 

[Sejanus]

 

[snickums63]

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Convicted child sex abuser who skipped trial before jurors sentenced him to life has hung himself: Cops

A man who skipped court instead of facing his fate from the jurors who ultimately convicted and sentenced him to life for sexually abusing a young girl was found dead on Tuesday.

lawandcrime.com

If only he had done it before the trial to save a lot of money. Shame that can't be an offer from the courts LOL