BELFAST, Maine (AP) — A 23-year-old Maine man is going to prison for 45 years for robbing and kidnapping an elderly woman before slashing her throat and leaving her for dead.
Stanley Ward, of Belfast, was sentenced Wednesday in Waldo County Superior Court. He pleaded guilty in April to robbery, kidnapping and attempted murder for last November’s attack on 73-year-old Patricia Moss.
According to the Bangor Daily News, Ward knew Moss because his father used to mow her lawn, and he showed up at her doorstep saying he needed money. She let him in her house, where he attacked her, forced her to write him a $300 check and then took her to a camper in a nearby town and left her to die.
But Moss regained consciousness and sought help.
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Information from: Bangor Daily News, http://www.bangornews.com
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