Man sentenced to 25 years for the rapist who killed his underage sister in jail

A 26-year-old man was imprisoned for leading the police in a frantic chase on a stolen patrol car, only to find himself in the same cell with the man who raped his underage sister a few years ago.

So he Be killed he.

Last year, Shane Goldsby beat convicted child rapist Robert Munger to death in a public area of ​​Washington’s Airway Heights Correctional Center. Prison officials reportedly ignored his request to another inmate. According to police reports, Goldsby hit Munger’s face and head area “about 14 times”, then stomped him at least four times, kicked him a few times, and walked away.

The 70-year-old Munger eventually died from his injuries.

Last week, Goldsby was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of Munger after expressing an emotional apology to the families of the victims in a Washington court.

“I can’t imagine what it would be like to lose a loved one in this way,” his statement said. “I apologize to his wife and his whole family. I’m sorry, and I hope you can heal from the harm I caused.”

Goldsby was initially imprisoned for stealing a Kelso police patrol car and leading the state highway patrol for a long chase. Eventually a soldier was injured in the car accident.

He told the local broadcaster Headquarters Last year, he had a dozen disputes with prison guards, and these disputes led to a series of prison transfers.

In 2020, he was transferred to a cell with Munger, who was sentenced to 43 years in prison for child sex crimes. Goldsby said Munger would brag about his crimes, including crimes of child molestation, child rape, and child pornography.

“He has been…providing me with detailed information about what happened and what he did. The photos and videos of him doing these things are constantly increasing,” Goldsby told KHQ in prison last year .

Then he recognized his underage sister from a story by Munger.

“I thought,’What the hell is this—?’… this kind of thing won’t happen,” he told the broadcaster. “You and this guy are talking about the same organization, the same unit, the same pod in the same cell. It’s like having the jackpot seven times in a casino.”

Goldsby said he went to the guards and asked for a new inmate, but they didn’t replace him, and he quickly became nervous.

Gosby killed Munger and admitted to doing so afterwards, even though he first accused prison officials of putting him in that position.

“I feel ready,” he said last year. “You are talking about this guy, he did some disgusting, twisted things to my little sister. My family. My blood. My life. Do you want me to face this guy?”

The State Department of Corrections says it has policies in place to prevent this unstable crossover between prisoners. An investigation revealed that officials did not know the connection between Goldsby and Munger before they were locked together.

Munger was sentenced at the end of 2019. Four previous trials led to his conviction on multiple charges, including first-degree rape of a child, three counts of child molestation, and first- and second-degree possession of child pornography. During the investigation, the police recovered thousands of pornographic images of children and identified three underage victims in this case.

“This is just a pathological scene, (a) a depraved, depraved scene,” the judge said at his sentencing hearing.

— File from the Associated Press