By Sarah Cassi
Shaun Austin is led out of District Judge John Capobianco's office after a preliminary hearing in July 2008. He will not face trial on three additional cases because the district attorney's office decided he is already serving "substantial" time on other cases and it is not worth making the victims testify.
An HIV-positive Bath man previously convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl and owning 96 images of child pornography will not go to trial in three other cases.
Assistant District Attorney Patricia Broscius decided to drop charges against Shaun Patrick Austin of interfering in child custody and having sex with two teenage girls.
Broscius said the decision was made in part because of the “substantial” prison sentence Austin is facing from his two previous convictions.
- Austin was sentenced in December to 72 years to 192 years in state prison for the child pornography. Austin is asking Judge Edward G. Smith to reconsider the sentence.
Avoiding three other trials also provides a benefit for Austin’s victims.
“They don’t have to testify,” Broscius said.
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