100-Year Sentences for Raping Daughter

(Blountville, Tennessee) This is one sick and sad story. A husband and wife have been sentenced to 112 years and 100 years, respectively, for raping their daughter.

From Becky Campbell at TimesNews.net:

The Kingsport woman who allowed her husband to have sex with her daughter and participated in the acts herself was sentenced to 100 years in prison at a hearing Tuesday.

Sherie D. Ratliff, 38, had faced 210 years in prison, but Judge Phyllis Miller chose to not make all the sentences consecutive to each other.

Ratliff pleaded guilty in June to especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated sexual battery, and six counts each of rape of a child and incest.

Ratliff's husband, Jeffery Ratliff, is already serving a 112-year prison sentence for the same convictions. He went to trial on the charges and was convicted by a jury.

During Sherie Ratliff's sentencing, Miller became emotional and even had to call a recess to regain her composure.

The case has been very emotional for court staff, particularly because the sex acts were recorded by Jeffery Ratliff and during his trial the jury, Miller and the attorneys had to watch it.

No rehabilitation, nor counseling, nor therapy, nor worldly goods will ever correct the damage these two people have done to their kids.