80 YEAR OLD WOMAN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR BURGLARY (AGAIN) (743 hits)
Imagine an 80-year old woman ransacking and stealing cash from a major medical office in Torrance, Calif., with an extensive rap sheet stemming all the way back from 1955.
Sounds incredulous, right? Not.
Meet 80-year-old Doris Thompson, a tiny, feeble old woman with a hearing impairment. From the outside, Thompson seems harmless, but boy, looks can be deceiving.
On Wednesday, February 25th, Thompson was sentenced to three years in prison for burglarizing a Southern California medical office in Torrance, Calif.
Oh, and it gets crazier, Thompson had a widespread history of theft and has used 27 aliases in her lifetime. In addition, the elderly woman has even been arrested countless times during the past 55 years for burglary and petty theft.
During her hearing, the medical employees of the Southern California medical office described Thompson as being "sly and quiet," and stated that she must staged her robbery by slipping inside the medical office as a male employee worked and hid out until he left.
With her hair styled in pig tails and white bows, Thompson pleaded "guilty" and thanked the judge for not sending her to Los Angeles county jail, saying, "I don't think I'll ever come back-except I'm going to die and be in a morgue."
Knowing that she could have spent 12 years in prison for her recent break in, Thompson quickly accepted a plea bargain and showed the judge her gratitude for her shortened sentence by saying, "God Bless You."
Thompson was ordered to pay $1,400 in restitution for her crime and will be eligible for parole in 16 months.
This woman is the real life version of Madea!!!
Sunday, February 28th 2010 at 11:20AM
Siebra Muhammad
Judge could have sentence probation! Things like this is when we suppose to protest, dig deep into the law books, learn and use knowledge to fight bull jive laws!
Sunday, February 28th 2010 at 10:01PM
lamic braxton
I agree with you Brother Braxton ---- Jail is no place for an elderly woman. She hasn'tt committed murder or some really horrible crime like molesting a child so what's the reason for jail rather than trying to really help her?
She needs to be referred to a Geriatric Psychiatrist for treatment for Kleptomania if she hasn't been referred already--- even if she has had treatment in the past--- she needs to be treated again.
Kleptomania is the condition of not being able to resist the urge to collect or hoard things. People with this disorder are compelled to steal things, generally objects of little or no significant value, such as pens, paper clips, and tape. Some kleptomaniacs may not even be aware that they have committed the theft.
Kleptomania was first officially recognized in the US as a mental disorder in the 1960s in the case of the state of California v. Douglas Jones... People with this disorder are likely to have a comorbid condition, specifically paranoid, schizoid or borderline personality disorder. Kleptomania can occur after traumatic brain injury and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Kleptomania is usually thought of as part of the obsessive-compulsive disorder spectrum, although emerging evidence suggests that it may be more similar to addictive and mood disorders...
