Man Convicted In Rape Of Hollywood Teen Sentenced To 30 Years

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FT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) - A Hollywood man who sexually assaulted a teen girl after several others beat her and then held her down was sentenced to prison on Thursday.

Last September, an all female jury convicted Jayvon Woolfork, 21, of kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual battery. He was facing a possible life sentence.

However, prosecutors pulled from the bottom of the guidelines, asking that Woolfork go away for 23 years. They cited his youth and drug problems.

Woolfork asked for mercy.

"I made some bad mistakes in my life as a young kid," he said. "I was 19 when it happened. I was incarcerated for two years."

But Judge Lisa Porter was not sympathetic.

"The facts and circumstances here were extreme sick and depraved, and that impression hasn't changed," she said.

Porter sentenced him to 30 years in the state penitentiary - seven more than requested.

The victim nor her family were in court Thursday. Prosecutors said they already endured enough.

During his trial the girl, who was only 16-years old at the time, testified that the beating and rape happened at Woolfork's home on McKinley Street in 2013.

Woolfork and four others charged in the attack were all teens at the time.  The girl said she was just hanging out with them when they began to assault her.

The teen said Patricia Montes, 17; Ericka Avery, 17; Dwight Henry, 18 and Lanel Singleton, 19, beat her and dragged her into a room and held her down while Woolfork raped her. Part of the attack was captured on cell phone video.

Woolfork had maintained that the sex was consensual.

Montes, Avery, Henry and Singleton all took plea deals from the state.

Singleton and Henry pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery and one count of kidnapping. Singleton was sentenced to four years in prison. Henry got two years because of his cooperation with prosecutors.

Avery pleaded guilty to armed sexual battery and kidnapping. She was sentenced to four years in prison as a youthful offender. Montes pleaded no contest to the same charges and was also sentenced to four years in a youth offender facility.