In 1978, 15-year-old Mary Vincent was hitchhiking when a 51-year-old man pulled up. Mary was relieved, but the man had different intentions. Lawrence Singleton took her to a secluded mountain, raped her, then hacked off both her forearms with an axe. He then threw her off a 30-foot cliff and left her for dead. But Mary refused to die. In act of incredible resilience, she packed mud into her stumps to stop bleeding out, crawled back up the cliff and walked 5 km completely naked until she found help. Mary survived and later testified in court wearing prosthetic arms. Singleton was arrested but controversially sentenced to just 8 years. That lenient sentence backfired, when in 1997 he murdered another woman.

@mrwtffacts Judges who give lenient punishments to violent reoffenders should get life in prison.

@Pattern_Sensor @mrwtffacts really they should be publicly 'looked after'

@Pattern_Sensor @mrwtffacts He gave the maximum allowed. If he could he would have given him life.

@Pattern_Sensor @mrwtffacts There should be no prisons. Punish criminals and be done with it. A stick, a whip, and an axe.

@Pattern_Sensor @mrwtffacts It was actually the max sentence per California law

@Pattern_Sensor @mrwtffacts Singleton was sentenced to fourteen years in prison, the maximum allowed by law in California at that time. The presiding judge remarked: "If I had the power, I would send him to prison for the rest of his natural life."

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