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Ted Mitchell and Thomas Childs each were sentenced to 80 years in prison Wednesday for the 1992 murder of a sleeping 14-year-old boy because they could find neither money nor crack in his home.
Mitchell and Childs, both 27, were convicted separately in May of entering the bedroom of Yusef Wright as he slept in his South Side home and beating the youth with a bat when they became angered over not being able to find drugs or cash in the home.
“That action was an affront to civilized society,” said Cook County Circuit Judge Thomas Cawley before he sentenced the two men to prison.
