An Iowa judge today sentenced a convicted child-abuser to half a century in prison.
Clarence Yoe, Junior, was convicted of severely shaking his girlfriend’s child, Frank Charbonneau, Junior. Yoe spoke in court just before sentencing, and called his conviction unfair because it was based on the testimony of his girlfriend, Miranda. Yoe says he spoke to authorities and told the truth within three days of the incident which injured the child’s brain. Yoe says Miranda never told the truth about what happened until she’d been in prison for four months. Yoe says she testified against him because she was offered a plea bargain to reduce her prison sentence.