Maine: One of three African refugees gets plea
deal in last summer’s beating death of man who befriended them, Posted by Ann
Corcoran on June 24, 2016
We first posted
the story of the grizzly murder here. Initially a judge had sealed
the documents in the case presumably to keep the public calm about the fact
that at least two of the alleged murderers are Muslims and that a bloody Bible
was found near the victim’s body. Freddy Akoa was a Christian. From WGAN
News Radio (hat tip: Frank):
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) One of three Portland men
accused of beating and kicking a man to death in his apartment has pleaded
guilty to manslaughter under a plea deal.
All three were
charged in the brutal 2015 beating death of Christian Freddy Akoa in Portland,
Maine. Left to right: Abil Teshome, Mohamud Mohamed, Osman Sheikh (the last two
names are definitely Somali names, Teshome could be Ethiopian)
Twenty-four-year-old Abil Teshome entered the
plea Thursday in Portland. He accepted a deal that caps his maximum prison
sentence at 20 years. A murder charge against him was dismissed. A sentencing date hasn’t been set.
The agreement
comes weeks before he was scheduled to stand trial July 11 in the death of
49-year-old Freddy Akoa of Portland. Police say Akoa suffered 22 rib fractures,
cuts and bruises to his head and torso and a lacerated liver from the fatal
Aug. 9, 2015, attack.
Thirty-two-year-old
Osman Sheikh and 37-year-old Mohamud Mohamed have pleaded not guilty in Akoa’s
death.
Here is a description
from the Portland
Press Herald (August
25, 2015) of how Freddy Akoa died: Freddy Akoa, the Portland man found dead in
his Cumberland Avenue apartment this month, had been beaten, kicked and bashed
in the head with furniture by his drinking companions during an assault that
went on for hours.
Akoa, 49, had
22 rib fractures from the savage attack, cuts and bruises all over his head and
torso, and a lacerated liver when his accused killers left him on his living
room floor in Apartment 18 at 457 Cumberland Ave. on the morning of Aug. 10.
Those details
were made public for the first time Monday when a judge at the Cumberland County
Courthouse unsealed an affidavit filed by Portland police Detective Christopher
Giesecke to obtain an arrest warrant for three men accused in the killing.
The affidavit
had been sealed at a prosecutor’s request for one week after three accused
killers appeared in court, each on a charge of murder by depraved indifference.
The three – Abil Teshome, 23, Osman Sheikh, 31, and Mohamud Mohamed, 36 – are
each being held without bail at the Cumberland County Jail.
The detectives
who arrived found the apartment in disarray, with empty beer cans on the
counter and clothes and trash strewn about. On the floor near Akoa’s head was a Bible
splattered in blood. Beneath his body was an official court document
with Mohamed’s name on it. On the kitchen counter was a purse with contents
inside with the name of Jennifer Wilson on them, Giesecke stated. Continue
reading for more of
the horrific details of Akoa’s last hours on earth.
I had been
wondering what happened to this case. Pay attention “welcoming” towns and
cities, diversity is not beautiful! And remember lucky taxpayers, you paid for their
resettlement and now you get to pay for their incarceration for 20 plus years
Comments
When
dealing with primitive people from third-world countries, it’s best to first
seek advice from our missionaries.
A
missionary went to work with tribal people.
He wanted to show them that he had a good heart. Upon deciding that his heart was good, they
ate it.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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