Bowing to homophobia gets Jake Eakin 14 years for Sorger murder
Jake Eakin, 14, one of two boys believed to be the youngest murder defendants to be charged as adults in Washington state history, changed his plea to guilty of second-degree murder by complicity today in Ephrata, claiming Evan Savoie, also 14, killed special education student Craig Sorger. At the time of the crime Eakin said he tried to leave, but Savoi called him "a fucking faggot," so he returned and hit Sorger about a dozen times with a stick. Prosecutors and defense attorneys both recommended an 8 year sentence so that Eakin would be released when he was 21, but judge Ken Jorgensen imposed a 14-year sentence with two years credit for time already served.
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