Supporters, including former Philadelphia mayor Wilson Goode, packed into a Montgomery County courtroom on Thursday on behalf of the Rev. Mark Hatcher, who was sentenced to up to 12 years in prison.
The Rev. Mark Hatcher is escorted out of a courtroom in the Montgomery County Courthouse on Thursday after being sentenced to state prison for raping and sexually assaulting three children.Advertisement
Hatcher’s attorney, Andrew Alston, asked Branca on Thursday for a sentence of partial confinement, such as house arrest, saying that any time in prison would be a “death sentence” for Hatcher, given his age. He reminded Branca that his client had never been arrested before this case, and said that he presents a low risk of re-offending.
“The reality is that this defendant thrives on power, thrives on all of these people coming together to say he’s the greatest,” she said, referring to Goode and other supporters who testified or wrote letters on Hatcher’s behalf. “And we’ve seen how he thrives on power in how he treated the victims.”told Whitpain Township police that he sexually abused them years earlier at his Blue Bell home, prosecutors said.
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