{"id":34335,"date":"2013-04-15T09:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=34335"},"modified":"2013-04-15T10:07:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:07:48","slug":"mentally-challenged-man-gets-five-years-for-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/mentally-challenged-man-gets-five-years-for-robbery","title":{"rendered":"Mentally Challenged Robber Gets Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/mentally-challenged-man-gets-five-years-for-robbery-34335.html\/jail-s\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34342\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34342\" title=\"jail-s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/jail-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/jail-s.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/jail-s-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>A judge on Friday sentenced a mentally challenged man to five years for robbing an Alaskan family who was vacationing on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson Delancy, 34, was convicted in February of breaking into a villa at the Cape Santa Maria Beach Resort and robbing the Roazma family from Anchorage, Alaska, of $140 and a rental car in December 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Roy Jones took Delancy\u2019s mental disability into account when he sentenced him to two concurrent five-year sentences for armed robbery and burglary. However, Delancy only has about a year remaining on his sentence as he already spent 40 months in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Jones said it was apparent that the armed robbery was planned.<\/p>\n<p>Delancy did not give evidence at his trial. Instead, he relied on the expert evidence of clinical psychologist Dr. Harry Ferere, who said Delancy had an IQ of 61.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer, Dorsey McPhee, contended that someone with Delancy\u2019s mental capacity could not make the coherent confession statement that police alleged he gave them.<\/p>\n<p>However, during questioning by Terry Archer, the prosecutor, Ferere said Delancy was capable of answering questions.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his mental challenges, Delancy worked as a police reservist and farmer.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, Delancy outlined the decision to rob and the execution of the plan. According to the statement, the robbery was his brother-in-law\u2019s idea.<\/p>\n<p>Delancy said he confessed because \u201che wanted to come clean because he made a mistake\u201d. Delancy reportedly said where he discarded his mask and hooded jacket.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not hold an identification parade in the matter because the culprit\u2019s face was hidden by the mask.<\/p>\n<p>In the Bahamas, most murderers, rapists and armed robbers almost never get five years in prison, because they know the right politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Delancy obviously had no such connections.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Artesia Davis<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Guardian Senior Reporter<\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jefferson Delancy, 34, was convicted of breaking into a villa on Long Island and robbing an Alaskan family of $140 and a rental car. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[812,31],"class_list":["post-34335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-armed-robbery","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}