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   18-Year-Old Man Who Broke Into Plano Home And Raped Woman Sentenced To 55   
   Years In Prison   
   texas   
   July 2, 2021 / 3:00 PM CDT / CBS Texas   
      
   McKINNEY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - A Collin County jury sentenced a Carrollton man   
   to 55 years in prison after finding him guilty of aggravated sexual assault.   
      
   "People have a sacred right to feel safe in their own homes and not get   
   despicably violated. We applaud this victim's bravery as well as the excellent   
   investigation by Plano Police," said Collin County DA Greg Willis after the   
   sentencing of Laxavier    
   Whittley, 18.   
      
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   Laxavier Whittley (credit: Collin Co. DA's Office)   
      
   According to the DA's Office, on July 8, 2019, Whittley unlawfully entered the   
   victim's home around 5:30 a.m., shortly after her husband left for the gym.   
      
   Whittley snuck into the victim's bedroom and woke her while clearly displaying   
   a firearm to coerce her compliance.   
      
   Whittley then violently sexually assaulted the victim for over an hour.   
      
   After that, he demanded money, jewelry, and firearms before he left.   
      
   The victim called 911 and went to Presbyterian Plano hospital in order to   
   undergo a sexual assault nurse examination to collect forensic evidence.   
      
   The Plano Police investigation included neighborhood interviews, a review of   
   multiple surveillance videos, and an interview with a manager of an adjacent   
   apartment complex.   
      
   Investigators identified an apartment of interest where a search warrant was   
   executed. Whittley's DNA was found on evidence collected from the victim's   
   forensic examination, and the victim's DNA was found on a firearm hidden by   
   Whittley in the apartment.   
      
   During the punishment phase of trial, prosecutors presented three additional   
   aggravated robberies that Whittley committed in the three days preceding the   
   sexual assault.   
      
   Prosecutors also presented a long school disciplinary history as well as   
   dozens of jail disciplinary violations while Whittley awaited trial.   
      
   The range of punishment for this crime was 5 to 99 years or life in prison and   
   the jury assessed a sentence of 55 years.   
      
   https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/man-laxavier-whittley-broke-p   
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