Anne Sluti
Anthony Zappa received a life sentence Monday plus seven years for abducting Anne Sluti from a Kearney mall parking lot in April 2001. He will also make restitution totaling almost $40,000.
Sluti gave tearful testimony during Zappa’s trial describing being sexually assaulted while she was detained by him. Zappa’s attorney had argued the Sluti had sex willingly with Zappa.
The judge believes the sentence will punish Zappa and deter other criminals. “I can’t count on age and time to rehabilitate Mr. Zappa, given his past and the difficulties he has caused for people … culminating in this crime,” Judge Warren Urbom said in handing down the sentence.
Anne Sluti was not in court Monday. However, her parents said they believe justice has been served.
“I think we saw justice here today. It’s a tremendous relief,” Anne’s mother, Elaine Sluti, said after Monday’s sentence was announced.
The teen’s parents said the family can now move forward knowing their daughter’s abductor will not be part of society again. “Society’s been protected. This individual who did this terrible thing to my daughter is put where he’ll never harm your children,” Anne’s father, Don Sluti, said.
Zappa’s attorney, James Martin Davis argued the punishment is too harsh.
Davis believes a punishment of 40 years would have been adequate. “Someday, if he walked out of a jail or a penitentiary, he would know in his own mind then, and only then, what he had truly sacrificed for his conduct,” Davis said.
But for Anne Sluti and her family, the sentence concludes a painful chapter in their lives. “She’s not looking for vengeance. She’s looking for her life ahead of her. And this just represents something in the past that we wish, and we all wish, had never happened,” Elaine Sluti said.
Zappa said he will appeal the conviction and the sentence.
Zappa, 31, a native of Minneapolis, is the man police in that city said led them on a multi-day chase in St. Paul and Bloomington in March 2001. Officers said he first eluded them after allegedly firing shots at officers in St. Paul trying to capture him on federal warrants. He then prompted the unprecedented closure of the Mall of America after he was spotted in the parking lot the next morning.
Source: www.ketv.com
Sluti gave tearful testimony during Zappa’s trial describing being sexually assaulted while she was detained by him. Zappa’s attorney had argued the Sluti had sex willingly with Zappa.
The judge believes the sentence will punish Zappa and deter other criminals. “I can’t count on age and time to rehabilitate Mr. Zappa, given his past and the difficulties he has caused for people … culminating in this crime,” Judge Warren Urbom said in handing down the sentence.
Anne Sluti was not in court Monday. However, her parents said they believe justice has been served.
“I think we saw justice here today. It’s a tremendous relief,” Anne’s mother, Elaine Sluti, said after Monday’s sentence was announced.
The teen’s parents said the family can now move forward knowing their daughter’s abductor will not be part of society again. “Society’s been protected. This individual who did this terrible thing to my daughter is put where he’ll never harm your children,” Anne’s father, Don Sluti, said.
Zappa’s attorney, James Martin Davis argued the punishment is too harsh.
Davis believes a punishment of 40 years would have been adequate. “Someday, if he walked out of a jail or a penitentiary, he would know in his own mind then, and only then, what he had truly sacrificed for his conduct,” Davis said.
But for Anne Sluti and her family, the sentence concludes a painful chapter in their lives. “She’s not looking for vengeance. She’s looking for her life ahead of her. And this just represents something in the past that we wish, and we all wish, had never happened,” Elaine Sluti said.
Zappa said he will appeal the conviction and the sentence.
Zappa, 31, a native of Minneapolis, is the man police in that city said led them on a multi-day chase in St. Paul and Bloomington in March 2001. Officers said he first eluded them after allegedly firing shots at officers in St. Paul trying to capture him on federal warrants. He then prompted the unprecedented closure of the Mall of America after he was spotted in the parking lot the next morning.
Source: www.ketv.com
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