Crime & Safety
President Pimping Austin Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Child, Domestic Abuse
The 21-year-old was sentenced for beating the mother of his child and whipping the boy on his legs and genitals with an AV cord.
A St. Paul man convicted of whipping his infant son with an AV cord and beating the child's mother, an Oakdale woman, has been sentenced to 72 months in prison.
President Pimping Austin, 21, was arrested in Oakdale following allegations that he used the cord to beat his son on the legs and genitals in late November 2012. Austin had also assaulted his child’s mother.
Austin was sentenced to six years of prison time by Washington County Judge Ellen Maas, following a court trial in which she found him guilty of malicious punishment of a child under 4 years of age and felony domestic abuse.
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“This type of conduct is totally abhorrent to all of us,” Washington County Attorney Pete Orput said in a statement. “We are very satisfied that the judge handed down consecutive sentences so as to properly reflect the magnitude of the harm done by this defendant.”
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