FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEWS ADVISORY
July 8, 2014
For More Information, contact:
Luther Strange
Joy Patterson (334) 242-7491
Claire Haynes (334) 242-7351
Alabama Attorney General
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AG ANNOUNCES LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE SENTENCE
FOR SEX CRIMES AGAINST FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL
(MONTGOMERY) – Attorney General Luther Strange announced that a Madison
County man yesterday was sentenced to life without parole for sodomy of a five-year-
old girl. He also was sentenced to two terms of 20 years imprisonment for additional
sex crimes against the child. Roland Gilbert Campos III of New Market was convicted
by a jury in Madison County Circuit Court on June 11.
The Attorney General’s Criminal Trials Division presented evidence at trial that
included a substantial detailed interview with the victim about repeated crimes of
sexual abuse and sodomy during 2012. In addition, the girl’s babysitter testified that
the girl told her what Campos had done to her. Campos admitted during testimony
that the child was usually truthful and that he had been with her on the times in
question. The defendant had been dating the victim’s mother.
Following a three-day trial, the jury found Campos guilty of two counts of first-
degree sexual abuse of a child aged less than 12 years and two counts of first-degree
sodomy.
“The sentence of life without parole is an appropriate punishment that provides
a measure of justice for this tragedy of horrendous abuse against a defenseless young
child,” said Attorney General Strange. “It is important that this defendant will no
longer be a danger to this child or any other. With this sentence, we send a strong
message that such vile crimes against children will not be tolerated.”
Attorney General Strange commended those involved in the prosecution of this
case, noting in particular Assistant Attorneys General Kelly Hawkins Godwin and
Andrew Arrington of his Criminal Trials Division, Victim Service Officer Doris
Hancock of his Office of Victim Assistance and Special Agents of his Investigations
Division. He also thanked the National Children’s Advocacy Center.
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