Public Safety
Waterloo teen convicted of beating elderly man
Posted on Oct 26, 2009 by admin.
A Black Hawk County jury has found a 17-year-old guilty of beating an elderly man with a frying pan during a robbery attempt.
Jesse John Pearson, who was tried as an adult, was found guilty Friday of first-degree robbery, willful injury causing serious injury and going armed with intent. The verdict came after a day and a half of testimony and arguments in the case.
According to prosecutors, Pearson and another youth on July 14 gained entry to the home of 69-year-old Peter Weiss, who is developmentally disabled, by asking to use the telephone. As the second teen made a telephone, Pearson searched for something to steal and beat Weiss with a cast iron pan.
A sentencing date for Pearson faces up to 25 years in prison, was not set.
– Associated Press
BigGun
26. Oct, 2009
Wow! It takes a real man to beat a woman or an old person, especially one who is disabled. Lock them up and toss the key in the trash.
chad7552402
26. Oct, 2009
"As the second teen made a telephone"
So they made a telephone and then ran away? I think someone forgot the word call in the artice. Nice grammar Gazette, real nice! Go back to school and learn to type and make sentences. Jeez!
Dudie
26. Oct, 2009
A sentencing date for Pearson faces up to 25 years in prison, was not set.
You gave them a break on the above.
shotfeel
26. Oct, 2009
Not being up on the legal code, what does "going armed with intent" mean? I assumed that meant something like going armed with a weapon with the intent of using it. Did he bring the cast iron pan with him? Was he "armed" in some other way?
Ann_Onamouse
27. Oct, 2009
The only problem that I see in this scenario is this thug is going to go to prison and will learn all sorts of new tricks from all the other criminals, will be released in a short time very much worse for wear, angry and ready to take it out on the rest of the world..