Tony Ayala Gets a 90-day Slap On the Wrist.
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Ayala's pending trail for burglary with intent to commit sexual assault, was suddenly halted on Monday September 17th, when both sides came to an agreement whereby Ayala would only have to serve 90 days in the slammer and 10 years' probation, instead the rest of his natural life in the can.
Ayala was accused of breaking into a San Antonio home through a window in the early hours of Dec. 12, 2000, with the intent to rape. Two women were in the house and one shot Ayala in the shoulder with a handgun. The two woman's story changed as to who actually did the shooting, and that discrepancy baited the lead prosecutor Michael Bernard to sit down with Ayala's attorney Mike McCrumb and hammer out this incredibly light sentence for the two-time rapist Ayala. Bernard said both sides were unhappy with the deal but agreed it's the "right resolution."
Right resolution for whom? The state? The two woman? Or only Ayala?
Consider this lecher's past offenses.
Nicknamed "El Torito," Ayala was first arrested for sexual assault when he was only fifteen years old. He attacked a young girl in the ladies room of a drive-in theater in his hometown of San Antonio, Texas. Ayala raped the poor girl, then roughed her up and left her beaten and bloodied on the bathroom floor. But because avaricious boxing individuals felt Ayala's ferociousness in ladies bathrooms might translate into big bucks for all those involved in his boxing career, Ayala got off with a wink of the eye and a slight slap on the wrist. Probation with no prison time included.
Fast forward to New years Day 1982. This time Ayala, hopped up on booze and assorted drugs, broke into a woman's home in Passaic County, New Jersey. Ayala blindfolded her, tied her hands, and held a knife to her throat. And then, he raped that poor girl too.
But this time Ayala was caught, tried and convicted, and sentenced to 35 years behind bars. Yet Ayala somehow managed to do only 16 years in the can. In April of 1999, Ayala was released from prison, supposedly all cured and contrite for past sexual transgressions against the fairer sex.
The Passaic County prosecutor Marilyn Zdobinski wanted Ayala to serve his entire 35-year sentence.
"He's an incorrigible animal," Zdobinski told The Bergin Record of New Jersey. "There was something about him that you knew the violence was never going to end."
