CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — 64-year-old Vernon Brooks was sentenced to more than two life sentences for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old relative who was under his care, a release states.
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Brooks received 18 convictions for two counts of object sexual penetration of a child under the age of 13, seven counts of aggravated sexual battery of a child under the age of 13, and nine counts of indecent liberties by a custodian.
Judge Marjorie A. Taylor Arrington, who presided over the trial, sentenced the defendant to two life sentences, plus 185 years and suspended 178 of those years, resulting in an active sentence of 2 life sentences plus seven years in the Virginia Department of Corrections.
This case stems from a series of assaults over the course of several months in 2018. During that time period the defendant lived with the victim, who was 11 years old, and was in a supervisory or caretaking role. At trial, she described how on numerous occasions he called her into his bedroom and sexually assaulted.