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~ Jacob Sullivan, (PA) ~
By: BuzzC Date: March 28, 2019, 10:49 am
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Man gets death for teen's r*p*, murder, dismemberment--
Thursday, March 28, 2019
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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. – A man who killed and dismembered his
girlfriend's 14-year-old daughter as part of a r*p*-murder
fantasy he shared with the teenager's mother was sentenced to
death Thursday.
Jacob Sullivan, 46, had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder
and related charges for killing Grace Packer in 2016.
After deliberating over parts of three days, a suburban
Philadelphia jury imposed the death penalty. Sullivan had no
reaction as the verdict was read. Pennsylvania has a moratorium
on the death penalty, but juries can still impose the sentence.
"The butchery in this case was beyond my ability to describe,"
Bucks County Judge Diane Gibbons told jurors, thanking them for
their service.
District Attorney Matthew Weintraub had asked the jury to send
Sullivan to death row, reminding them that Grace's life "ended
in a house of horrors that became a hell on Earth."
The defense asked for a life sentence, insisting that Grace's
mother, Sara Packer, masterminded the gruesome plot and
controlled Sullivan. Sara Packer, who testified last week and
admitted to jurors she wanted her daughter dead and took part in
the plot, is due to plead guilty to first-degree murder in
exchange for a life sentence.
Sullivan and Sara Packer took Grace to a sweltering attic and
gave her what they intended to be a lethal overdose of medicine,
authorities say. The couple bound her hands and feet with zip
ties and stuffed a ball gag in her mouth, and Sullivan sexually
assaulted her as Sara Packer watched.
The couple left Grace in the attic to die, but she managed to
escape some of her bindings and spit the gag out, prosecutors
say. Sullivan and Sara Packer returned to the vacant house 12
hours later, and Sullivan strangled her.
Sara Packer and Sullivan stored Grace's body in cat litter for
months, then hacked it up and dumped it in a remote area where
hunters found it in October 2016, authorities said.
Sara Packer and her husband at the time, David Packer, adopted
Grace and Grace's younger brother in 2007. The couple cared for
dozens of foster children before David Packer was sent to prison
for sexually assaulting Grace and a 15-year-old foster daughter.
Sara Packer lost her job as a Northampton County adoptions
supervisor in 2010 and was barred from taking in any more foster
children. But child welfare authorities did not remove Grace
from the home, despite evidence of abuse.
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services launched an
investigation after Grace's murder, but its findings have not
been made public.
Pennsylvania last carried out an execution in 1999, and
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf declared a moratorium on capital
punishment in 2015. There are 142 inmates on the state's death
row.
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