A 55-year-old Westminster man was sentenced yesterday to three years in the Carroll County Detention Center for sexually assaulting his wife and videotaping the attack when she passed out after he got her drunk.
The man's wife, daughter and minister asked Judge Luke K. Burns Jr. for leniency, saying they were convinced that the defendant has reformed and that he has been going to counseling with his wife.
Judge Burns answered their pleas by saying he would not send the man to state prison. Instead, the man will serve his term on work release.
The man pleaded guilty two months ago to a second-degree sex offense involving his wife. The offense occurred four years ago, according to court records.
The charges stemmed from the wife's discovery of the videotapes and her request to a Carroll judge for a restraining order to keep her husband away from her.
The judge said he didn't send the man to state prison because VTC
the defendant's wife would have lost his job income and medical insurance, causing "everything to crash down on her," and because she had asked the court not to send him to prison.