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In this July 11, 2018, file photo, Rodolfo Rodriguez, 92, thanks well-wishers for their help, as he talks to the media gathered outside his home in Los Angeles. A Los Angeles woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the beating of the 92-year-old man that was captured on video and shared widely on social media. Thirty-year-old Laquisha Jones was sentenced Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, following her no contest plea to elder abuse in December. Prosecutors say Jones severely beat Rodriguez in the face with a brick on July 4 as the elderly man was taking a walk.
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019 | 6:35 p.m.
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the beating of a 92-year-old man that was captured on video and shared widely on social media.
Thirty-year-old Laquisha Jones was sentenced Thursday following her no contest plea to elder abuse in December.
Prosecutors say Jones severely beat Rodolfo Rodriguez in the face with a brick on July 4 as the man was taking a walk. They say Rodriguez did nothing to provoke the attack.
A witness recorded video of Rodriguez as he sat dazed, his face bloodied, after being beaten. The witness, Misbel Borjas, also took a photo of a woman with a brick in her hand.
Borjas says Jones yelled at Rodriguez: "Go back to your country."
The case wasn't prosecuted as a hate crime.
