{"id":5690,"date":"2011-04-18T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5690"},"modified":"2011-04-18T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T19:14:27","slug":"teenager-sentenced-for-murdering-pregnant-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5690","title":{"rendered":"Teenager Sentenced For Murdering Pregnant Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. &#8212; A teenager was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison for his role in the 2008 torture killing of a pregnant, developmentally impaired mother who police say died after weeks of systematic scaldings, beatings, burns from a glue gun and being used as target practice with a BB gun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benny Wilson,<\/strong> 19, twice declined to address the judge as the last of six defendants sentenced in <strong>Dorothy Dixon&#8217;s<\/strong> death, which police say <strong>Wilson <\/strong>admitted contributing to by routinely shooting her with BBs &#8220;playing around.&#8221; At least once when he ran out of BBs, an investigator testified Friday, <strong>Wilson<\/strong> used a knife to dig the ammunition out of <strong>Dixon&#8217;s<\/strong> flesh and fired them off at <strong>Dixon<\/strong> again.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have said <strong>Dixon<\/strong> was a 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way when she was found dead in January 2008 at <strong>Riley&#8217;s <\/strong>Alton house, where she had been banished to the basement and given little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. &#8212; A teenager was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison for his role in the 2008 torture killing of a pregnant, developmentally impaired mother who police say died after weeks of systematic scaldings, beatings, burns from a glue gun and being used as target practice with a BB gun. Benny Wilson, 19, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}