Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Arthur Henderson was convicted Feb. 11 after jurors deliberated less than four hours.
Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge Donna Jo McDaniel on Tuesday sentenced Arthur Lamont Henderson to spend 61 to 122 years in prison for raping and robbing two women in Ross Township and another in Hopewell Township in January 2012. Before imposing the sentence, McDaniel told Henderson she regarded him as a "serial rapist and a sociopath" who has demonstrated, after spending several years in prison for other crimes, that he has "no ability to rehabilitate" and is the "definition of dangerous." The judge said the case was "one of the most horrible" she's ever heard. Prior to Henderson's sentencing, all three of his victims spoke, each asking the judge to impose the maximum sentence. One of the women said she carried scars that are "…
Monday, February 11, 2013
After representing himself during his trial, the convicted rapist is scheduled to be sentenced in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court.
Convicted rapist Arthur Lamont Henderson is scheduled to be sentenced March 26 after a jury found him guilty of raping three women in Ross and Hopewell townships. Jurors deliberated for less than four hours beforereturning a verdict, ending an unusual trial in which Henderson acted as his own attorney and cross-examined his victims as well as the police officers who arrested him, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. During closing arguments in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, Henderson claimed he was framed while the prosecution said it had proven its case beyond any doubt. The Ross Township rapes were reported Saturday, Jan. 7, at the Woodhawk Club Apartments complex on Johnanna Drive and on Monday, Jan. 9, at the Cascades …
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Friday, February 8, 2013
Henderson, who is representing himself, said the videos do not prove anything. He is charged with raping and robbing three women.
The prosecution in the trial of Arthur Lamont Henderson on Thursday used surveillance camera videos to show his alleged whereabouts on the day he is accused of raping a woman in Ross Township, according to local media reports. But Henderson, who is representing himself, countered that the videos do not prove anything, KDKA reports. The 39-year-old North Side man is charged with raping and robbing two women in Ross Township and one in Hopewell Township in January 2012. One video shows a man in a gray hooded sweatshirt walking down a hallway leading to a Citizens Bank ATM in Manchester where police say the man tried to use three credit cards belonging to a Ross Township woman who had just been raped, according to KDKA. Henderson cross-…
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The assaults took place at two different Ross Township apartment complexes, and the home of a Hopewell Township woman.
Testimony began Tuesday in the trial of Arthur Lamont Henderson, who is charged with raping and robbing women in Ross and Hopewell townships a year ago. Among the first to testify was a Hopewell nurse, who told jurors she pleaded with Henderson not to rape her as he held a gun to her head early on the morning of Jan. 7, 2012. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported the woman testified with tears in her eyes. “I kept telling him don't do this to me. Please don't do this to me,” she said. “I knew what my eyes were seeing, but my mind was not believing it.” The woman, 50, was stoic when she took the stand and relayed to the jury what occurred, the Trib reported. She choked up when describing how Henderson raped her twice and barely winced when…
Friday, February 10, 2012
Henderson will remain in the Allegheny County Jail until his trial, which will be months away.
Arthur Lamont Henderson pleaded not guilty in a preliminary hearing today to the charges he faces in Ross for the rapes and robberies of two women in early January. Henderson, 38, of the North Side, also pleaded not guilty to charges related to the rape and robbery of a third woman in Hopewell Township and the assault of a man in Ohio Township. All four attacks took place within a four day period, between Jan. 7 and Jan. 10. All four cases were consolidated for today's hearing and brought specially before Magisterial District Judge Richard Opiela to preside over. Opiela held all charges for trial, said Mike Manko, the spokesman for the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office. Henderson will remain in the Allegheny County Jail. A $2…
