No prison time for 20-year-old man who pleaded guilty to rape and sexual assault of four teen girls
A New York man who pleaded guilty to raping four teen girls when he was also a teen will not spend any time in prison after a judge’s decided to sentence him to eight years of probation according to CNN. Judge Matthew Murphy stated it wouldn’t be “appropriate” to sentence Christopher Belter, now 20 years old to prison for the sex crimes committed at his family’s home in Lewiston, New York, in 2017 and 2018. Belter faced a maximum of eight years in prison. Murphy sentenced Belter as an adult, which denied him youthful offender status after he bypassed monitoring software on his computer to view pornography while he was on probation, WKRC reported.
“I agonized, I’m not ashamed to say that I actually prayed over what is the appropriate sentence in this case,” Murphy said. “Because there was great pain. There was great harm. There were multiple crimes committed in the case.”
SNAP, an advocacy group for sexual assault victims, filed a complaint against Murphy in the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct following the ruling.
“The purpose of our court system is to be equitable and fair, and to make sure the punishment fits the crime,” John Bellocchio, a spokesperson of the organization told WKBW.
Bellocchio says that Murphy announced he would retire at the end of December, should be immediately suspended.
Belter sexually assaulted four girls which included three 16-year-olds and one 15-year-old in 2017 and 2018. Belter’s mother was charged with supplying marijuana and alcohol to teens who gathered at the home in the wealthy community not far from Niagara Falls.
Belter plead guilty to charges of rape and sex abuse in 2019. One of Belter’s victims, identified as M.M. in court documents, was disappointed by the judge’s decision according to her attorney, Steven M. Cohen.
“My client threw up in the ladies room following the sentencing,” Cohen told The New York Times. “If Chris Belter was not a white defendant from a rich and influential family” he “would surely have been sentenced to prison.”
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