Defense: Child molester wouldn't be safe in prison
By Craig Kapitan, San Antonio Express News
Updated 11:31 p.m., Tuesday, January 31, 2012
As a white man convicted of child molestation, Robert Piazzi Jr. might not survive prison, his attorneys suggested during his punishment hearing this week as they asked for probation.
Jurors didn't seem moved by the unorthodox argument. He was ordered Tuesday to serve 25 years behind bars.
Piazzi, 40, was convicted Thursday of four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl who made an outcry in 2007. During the two-day punishment hearing that followed, a second girl said he had touched her inappropriately when she was 11.
Aggravated sexual assault of a child is punishable by up to life in prison. But with no prior criminal record, Piazzi also was eligible for probation, defense attorneys Neil Calfas and Shawn Brown said.
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