Texas 'fight club' defendant sentenced to 3 years
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A man convicted of helping run what police called a "fight club" that set developmentally disabled residents of a state-run center against each other was sentenced to three years in prison Friday.
A Nueces County jury spared Jesse Salazar the maximum punishment in the abuse scandal that surfaced with cell phone videos of employees at the Corpus Christi State School provoking residents into fights.
Salazar, who no longer works at the facility, was convicted this week of intentionally causing injury to a disabled person. He had faced up to 10 years in prison, but jurors returned with a lighter sentence Friday afternoon after being split 11-1 earlier in the day.
For more than a year, authorities said, staff on the night shift in one of the Corpus Christi facility's dorms staged fights among the residents. They instigated the bouts with direct commands and pranks aimed at spurring the residents to turn on each other, police said.
Almost 20 videos of the fights were discovered in March when a cell phone containing the images was found at a clothing store and turned in to police. The four videos shown to jurors in Salazar's case were filmed in early 2008.
i live in corpus christi, and this tard that just got sent to the slammer was crying and saying, give me a chance i am not a criminal, blaaaa blaaaa, stick his ass and the rest of the tards in a cage and let them face someone like Brock.
I fail to see how this relates to amateur MMA in Texas...