Harvey Edward Brown, 29, choked up as he asked a judge for mercy.
"I wish to express my sympathy to the victim and her family for a crime that I never should have committed," he said, adding that he wants to get psychological treatment "so I can try to turn my life around, so I can be a better person than what I am now."
Brown's lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Karl H. Gordon, said his client reads at the level of a third-grader and came from a family in which his father sexually...
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