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Man Sentenced to 18 Years for Rape, Exposing Teen Boy to HIV

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - A Murfreesboro man convicted of raping a teenage boy and exposing him to the HIV virus has been sentenced to serve three years in prison.

A judge sentenced 38 year-old Michael Wayne McElderry on Monday, February 11, 2008, to serve three years of an 18-year prison term.

McElderry was convicted in September 2007 of criminal exposure to the HIV virus and aggravated statutory rape. The teen's mother says he has not tested positive for the virus.

McElderry admitted he had sexual contact with a 15 year-old boy in July of 2006. He said the teenager's mother walked in and caught him in the act.

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Published Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:35 PM by smyers

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East Memphis said:

I just can't see how this can be less than life in prison.  Hopefully his fellow prisoners will turn it into that.
February 12, 2008 2:19 PM
 

mnshadow53 said:

Three years????  You have got to be kidding!  He should have been given the death sentence.  He sure may have sentenced this child to death!  
February 12, 2008 2:32 PM
 

Dover said:

The judge in this case needs his/her head examined! Like in so many other cases, judges give the minimum sentence when it should be the maximum.  A pervert is sickening enough. A pervert that deliberately passed HIV to a child should be in prison for the rest of his worthless life or dead.
February 12, 2008 2:54 PM
 

ORANGE MOUND said:

3 years? is that all? let this have been the judge's son on the receiving end of this stick. i'll bet you all the tea in china that he would have gotten your life and my life too. now put that in your pipe and smoke that judge!!!!!
February 12, 2008 3:19 PM
 

EOO1812 said:

It was a black judge and a black defendant, now ya'll leave them poor old back folk alone.He got whats coming to him.If he'd  had been white he might have gotten 20 yrs, and to some of you good folk out there would have been cheering the good judge on.
You know as well as I that if you are a white male in this once great country that you are scum of the earth. Look at all the commercials for *** cancer,heart attacks,osteoporosis, The list goes on and on. Where's the commercials for mens heart attacks,Prostate cancer,colon cancer,well I guess that alzheimer's commercial is ok.Where would this country be without the white male?The next time you use your cell phone, Ipod, every appliance in your home ,the automobile,You just think about that . Oh and before any idiot says it.We know about the peanut butter, had some today, thanks alot bro.
February 12, 2008 3:38 PM
 

Catgirl said:

Oh, EOO- I thought we were making progress...

*SIGH*

Dude is WHITE. Not that it matters. He preyed on a child.

And white men are not all evil, anymore than all black men are. Sheesh.


February 12, 2008 4:04 PM
 

East Memphis said:

"  EOO1812 said:
It was a black judge and a black defendant"
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If he was black he was more light skinned than Michael Jackson is now!
February 12, 2008 4:34 PM
 

EOO1812 said:

East Memphis, you have an elequant way of saying things.
February 12, 2008 5:00 PM
 

EOO1812 said:

This thing wont let you say b.r.e.a.s.t.,LOL
February 12, 2008 5:02 PM
 

Roxas08 said:

I can't belevie that dude only got 3yrs for raping a child. Maybe it's because he was a boy and not a girl, but still.
February 13, 2008 10:40 AM
 

Jacobi131 said:

No matter what the sex of the victim is, that is rape of a minor child.
No matter what the race of the man, he  was convicted of rape and
should serve more than 3 years of an 18 year sentence.  If the minor
victim ends up with HIV and could possibly die the sentence should be
life with no parole or worse.....not 3 yrs.
February 13, 2008 10:47 PM
 

builtbyhh said:

Eoo1812 where would this country be if it wasn't for the white male, well let me see, 1) not in Iraq, 2) not a nation in debt, 3) not enron, 4) not these high *** gas prices, the list goes on.  Well I'm cool with everybody, too bad that you are truly not a part of America because if you cain't see diversity your gonna be left behind and let me put you up on something, you cain't go forward with your thumb on someone else, let it go bro the civil war is over, face it, you lost.  You better get your mind right because in less than one hundred years you will be a minority in this country that you, (white male), 5) used the black male to take from the native americans, remember them, have you seen one lately.
February 15, 2008 12:41 PM
 

mrbrk said:

Eoo1812 you sound like another misguided idiot. the guy was white. all of the molesting priests have been white.
February 16, 2008 10:28 AM
 

mrbrk said:

Eoo1812 you sound like another misguided idiot. the guy was white. all of the molesting priests have been white.
February 16, 2008 10:28 AM
 

mrbrk said:

Eoo1812 you sound like another misguided idiot. the guy was white. all of the molesting priests have been white.
February 16, 2008 10:28 AM
 

keyiona1 said:

This sicko is only serving a 3 yr sentence. They'll give the dope man more time than this. Plus, could of gave the boy hiv. That's manslaughter or something in my eyes. The judice system is so unfair. He may have ruined that boy's life.
December 16, 2008 3:21 PM
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