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Posted: Sunday, November 9, 2008 12:00 am
FORT
DODGE, Iowa (AP) - A Fort Dodge man convicted of running over a
12-year-old boy because the child is black has been sentenced to 10
years in prison.
Mark
Hennings was found guilty in September. He was sentenced Friday in
Webster County District Court.
Prosecutors say
Hennings ran the child over on June 2, 2007 as the boy walked with
friends near the Fort Dodge Public Library.
Court
records show that Hennings got out of his pickup truck and
threatened the group with a knife. Records show he drove off but
returned and ran the child over.
The
boy suffered scraps and an injury to his liver but was released
from the hospital two days later.
Hennings was
convicted of willful injury causing serious injury and assault in
the violation of individual rights with the intent to cause serious
injury.