Man Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison For Sucker-Punching 12-Year-Old Boy Dancing On Street Corner

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Man Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison For Sucker-Punching 12-Year-Old Boy Dancing On Street Corner

A man from Missouri was sentenced to seven years in prison for assaulting a 12-year-old boy who was dancing on the sidewalk. Cedric Charles Moore Jr, residing in Cape Girardeau, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault on May 10, 2021.

The incident, which took place summer of 2020, was captured on film. In the video, Moore can be seen exiting a black SUV near the intersection of Main Street and Independence Street in downtown Cape Girardeau. He quietly approaches the young dancer, Ethan Hagler, who was accompanied by his teacher, Michael Curry, and another boy. Without warning, Moore throws a punch at the child’s face. Curry and his friend chase after Moore as he quickly retreats to the waiting SUV, which then drives away.

At the time of the assault on Hagler, Moore was already serving probation for a prior felony domestic assault conviction in 2019. In addition to the seven-year prison sentence for the sucker-punch incident, The Smoking Gun reported that Moore received a separate four-year incarceration sentence for violating the conditions of his probation. Both sentences will be served concurrently.

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[mercuryblues]

1. Sounds like a man who only

Unleashes his violence on unsuspecting people wh can't defend themselves.

May he serve the full 7 years.

[LonePirate]

2. I hope he cried like a baby at his hearing.

[Ray Bruns]

3. Terms should have been consecutively

[joshdawg]

4. Agree! Totally.

And fined, say, 10,000 dollars?

[exboyfil]

7. Exactly

No sympathy for someone who hurts a child.

[mercuryblues]

8. When he hit the kid, he was on oarole

For felony domestic abuse.

He only beats on those smaller than him, who can't fight back.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

5. Another

Profile in Cowardice.

[The Jungle 1]

6. If he gets in one single fight in prison triple the time.

I bad case of strangulated internal hemorrhoids fitting.

[AllyCat]

9. What a disgusting person.

Why does he get to serve concurrently? Should lock him up longer.

Poor kid.

[HardPort]

10. The driver of the car needs some jail time too.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. Had the same thought

[Ligyron]

11. Dude doesn't like Hip Hop maybe?

[niyad]

13. The scum pleaded guilty in 2021, and is just now sentenced? WTF?? Has he

been free this whole time?

[ShazzieB]

14. He was on probation.

Probation is a conviction and an actual sentence on the offender. His probation was revoked when
he decided to violate his probation by committing another violent crime, in front of a bunch of witnesses no less.

[Seinan Sensei]

15. Total chickenshit thing to do

To prance up behind a kid, slug him, then run away.

I'd like to see chickenshit Cedric Charles Moore Jr, while in prison, prance up to big Bubba, from the front, face-to-face and then punch Bubba in the mouth.
He's big and bad, right?
Yeah.
Naw. Not gonna happen.

[LoisB]

16. What a disgusting low-life.

[republianmushroom]

17. Should of been a longer sentence. IMO

Enjoy the attachment of FELON to your name when you get out.

[Skittles]

18. sucker punching a child

WTF, that guy is a danger to all of us