A Maine man with a lengthy record was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Erie to life in federal prison for kidnapping and raping a 20-year-old woman near Kinzua Dam, in the Allegheny National Forest, in 2010.
Mike Beaulieu pleaded guilty in March to kidnapping and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence. He also admitted to raping the woman and tying up and gagging her 23-year-old boyfriend with rope and duct tape in the Allegheny National Forest, in Warren County.
The rape allegations were incorporated into the two charges to which Beaulieu pleaded guilty.
U.S. District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin sentenced Beaulieu, and called him “a violent recidivist.”
Beaulieu faced a minimum sentence of 37 years in prison and a maximum of life. The sentence was so long because of his prior record, which included convictions for crimes such as rape, arson, escape and domestic violence assault in Maine.
Beaulieu, 37, is from Anson, Maine, about 65 miles west of Bangor.
In the rape case, the couple Beaulieu victimized had been visiting the Kinzua Point Information Center to go on a picnic when Beaulieu confronted them with a .45-caliber Kimber handgun on Aug. 3, 2010.
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An appropriate sentence for someone who CANNOT be rehabilitated.
I wonder what his sentence would be in a Maine state court if he’d done the same thing in Maine.
Any guesses?
probably a second offense…..
10 months……if that.
Let’s bring that judge to Maine!
He is a federal judge, most people don’t complain about them. It is the state ones folks love to complain about.
Maine, soft on crime!
unless the crime is soft drug
Justice !!
YAY!!! Was the judge’s name Harvey Dent?
So he’s 37, 40 years to live let’s say. At 50k a year that’s $2,000,000 to incarcerate this scum. The sentence was great, but the death penalty would be better. Long rap sheet and admitted to the crime? Do it.
Some may think it is insensitive but in my book rape deserved capitol punishment just as much as murder, especially when it involves a child or in this case a young women with a whole life to live.