Man will get life in jail after pleading responsible within the sexual assaults of 4 girls of their Texas houses
McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A person was sentenced to life in jail after pleading responsible within the assaults of 4 girls who had been sexually assaulted in their homes all through the Dallas space, together with three girls who had been alumnae of the identical nationwide Black sorority.
Jeffery Lemor Wheat, 52, entered the pleas Tuesday in district court docket in Collin County. With the assistance of video conferencing, he was sentenced by judges in 4 completely different counties, television station WFAA reported.
The assaults occurred in Dallas, Denton, Collin and Tarrant counties. He obtained two life sentences for housebreaking of a habitation with intent of one other felony, with a kind of expenses coming from Tarrant County and the opposite from Collin County. He additionally obtained 30 years in jail for an aggravated sexual assault cost out of Dallas County and 20 years for a sexual assault cost out of Denton County, in response to prosecutors’ workplaces and court docket data.
Wheat’s sentences will run on the identical time, WFAA reported. Wheat’s lawyer, Greg Ashford, informed the TV station: “He at the very least has an opportunity of parole after 15 years, minus the three years that he has already been incarcerated. So, we felt that was the most effective end result of those instances for him.”
Wheat was arrested in 2021 after investigators used DNA and family tree analysis to determine him as an individual of curiosity within the sexual assaults, one which occurred in 2003 and three others that occurred in 2011.
Limitations in expertise in 2003 led to that case being suspended. However years later, DNA testing linked it to the three instances from 2011, prosecutors in Tarrant County stated. Prosecutors in Collin County stated that investigators then spent two years working with genetic family tree labs and conducting genealogical analysis to determine an individual of curiosity.
All the victims within the 2011 instances had been members of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, prosecutors stated. Collin County prosecutors stated investigators in Plano decided that Wheat had entry to non-public details about them when he labored for a bank card processing firm the sorority had used.
