One of the Youngest Criminals Sentenced with Life in Prison
The parents of 15-year-old, Jose Guadalupe Walle, said their son used to be a soccer player and good student that eventually got involved with the wrong crowd in middle school. Walle was involved with marijuana and was eventually sent to drug treatment and counseling.
The parents of Walle asked him to be punished by the juvenile court, but he was eventually released. Walle ran away four months before he was put behind bars for his crime, and the parents were informed that the only way the teenager would be caught and found was if he committed a crime. At 13-years-old, Walle was out on the street involving himself with LSD, cocaine, Xanax and alcohol.
In 2008, Walle had kidnapped two women, raped them, and had to be persuaded not to kill them. The women remembered him as the “mean one” of the bunch, and he was just 13-years-old. A judge had sentenced Walle to life in prison. Walle, now 15, may be considered the youngest United States prisoner that was written off for a crime in which nobody died. The Hillsborough Judge appointed to Walle’s trial stated that if he ever walked the streets again, he would kill.
According to the Tampa Bay news, Judge Tharpe told Walle’s attorney that this is by far the most disturbing case that he has ever seen in his nineteen years of being on the bench. It was reported that Walle has no conscience at all, and he has no concern or care for any human life. Walle’s psychiatrist, at the time, reported that he had no memory or recollection of what happened during the rapes, but unfortunately, his victim’s can never forget.
The victims reported that their four-hour nightmare started at a bar and grill named Docks and dreadfully ended when the attackers told them to jump out of the moving van on Interstate 75. The victims also reported that Walle was the attacker holding the gun the whole time, and they were certain that he wanted to kill them.
Walle’s charges include armed kidnapping on four counts and armed sexual battery charges of over one dozen counts. He pled guilty to all offenses, and the evidence simply did not lie. On Wednesday, March 10, the judge was asked to match Walle’s already imposed sentence of 27 years for the rape in St. Petersburg.
This typically allows Walle to be released from custody at the age of forty. According to Walle’s psychiatrist, he was a very “immature and damaged young man,” and he had attempted to kill himself at least once. Walle did not understand the severity of his criminal nature.
At the end of Walle’s hearing, the judge reportedly commented that he had never had a minor sitting on his bench that did not know the difference between right and wrong. Unfortunately, for Walle, it looks like he may never be walking the streets again.
