HOUSTON, TX (AP) -- A 17-year-old was sentenced to 90 years in prison for an hours-long attack on a boy who was beaten, kicked, stomped, burned and sodomized with the plastic pole of a patio umbrella.
The same jury that convicted Keith Turner on Friday took about five hours to agree on the sentence. He will have to serve at least 30 years before becoming eligible for parole.
Turner was the second teen convicted of aggravated sexual assault in the April attack. David Henry Tuck, 18, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on November 16.
Prosecutors said the attack was racially motivated, in part because the 17-year-old victim is Hispanic and Tuck espoused white-supremacist beliefs.
Turner, Tuck, the victim and two other teens were partying at a house in Spring, north of Houston, drinking and taking cocaine and Xanax.
According to testimony, the attack was triggered by the victim's drunken pass at a 12-year-old girl.
Tuck shouted racial slurs and ''white power'' as he and Turner attacked the victim, sodomized him with the umbrella pole and poured bleach on him in an assault that lasted up to five hours.
Doctors initially did not expect the victim to survive. He was hospitalized for more than three months and underwent 20 to 30 operations. He testified at Turk's trial that he remembered nothing of the assault.
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