A man freed on a technicality from a 95-year prison sentence for child rape and torture is going back to jail after running five red lights at 70 mph and killing a motorist.
On Tuesday, the South Florida man accused of crashing into and killing businessman William “Tony” Yates was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Broward County circuit judge.
Yates, who owned Petrotech Southeast Inc., was killed May 6, 2003, in Pompano Beach, where he was working with one of his sons.
The Yateses were driving in a pickup truck when Timothy Bacon, 40, who had a suspended license, crashed into them.
Authorities said Bacon ran at least five red lights and hit a city vehicle before he crashed into the truck on Dixie Highway.
He explained he was rushing because he was late for work.
In 1998, Bacon was sentenced to 95 years in prison after he was convicted of raping and torturing his girlfriend’s 11-month-old daughter.
The conviction was overturned on a technicality and Bacon served five years before he was released. A psychiatrist’s testimony was not properly considered in the trial, a judge ruled.
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