GUILTY MD - Ryan Gifford for beating, raping toddler, Westminster, 2010

[Rayemonde]

June 2011:

Ryan C. Gifford had used a lot of heroin that day and drank wine and other alcohol, his lawyer said. "He was high pretty much the entire evening," said his lawyer, Lee McNulty.

That is why his client had no recollection, he said, of assaulting, burning and sexually abusing a 21-month-old child on an April night last year, acts that doctors said almost killed the toddler and for which Gifford received a 50-year prison sentence — half of it suspended — in a Westminster courtroom Thursday.

Ryan Gifford must undergo substance-abuse treatment and stay away from the child's relatives, several of whom were a few feet away in the courtroom, and have no contact with children younger than 8 years old. If he does not comply, the judge told him, "you will serve the balance of the suspended sentence".

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...cing-20110602_1_gifford-westminster-man-child

 

[pappa rob]

That's awful, I was on drugs, drink, don't remember. What kind of excuses else does he have up his sleeve. That's sickening.