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Justice prevails! Keith Coleman gets life sentence for killing girlfriend before chasing down and strangling her young children who witnessed their mother’s death; Judge ignores his claims of remorse

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;140202&semi;">29-year0old Keith Coleman killed his 36-year-old live in girlfriend&comma; Christina Sargent in her Garland&comma; Maine home in Dec 2014<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;140202&semi;">Coleman&comma; then 27&comma; chased down Duwayne Coke&comma; 10&comma; and eight-year-old Destiny Sargent and strangled them because they witnessed their mother&&num;8217&semi;s death <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;140202&semi;">Convicted last November of three counts of murder and one count of sexual assault on the family&comma; He was jailed for life on Thursday<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;140202&semi;">Coleman also received a 20-year sentence for sexually assaulting Sargent&&num;8217&semi;s 8-year-old daughter<&sol;span><strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-129995" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;keith-coleman1&period;png" alt&equals;"keith-coleman1" width&equals;"569" height&equals;"302" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Keith Coleman&comma; 29&comma; received three life sentences for killing girlfriend and her kids<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Keith Coleman&comma; 29&comma; asked for mercy before a judge imposed three life sentences  for the slayings of a family of three late in 2014&period; Coleman was accused of killing Christina Sargent&comma; 36 and her two children &&num;8211&semi; Duwayne Coke&comma; 10&comma;  and 8-year-old Destiny Sargent at  their Garland&comma; Maine home&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Maine police said Coleman told them that he chased down and strangled the children because they&&num;8217&semi;d witnessed their mother&&num;8217&semi;s death&period; The bodies were found on December 20&comma; 2014&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Coleman was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young children&period; He received the maximum penalty for his heinous crime&comma; Thursday&comma; in spite of his last ditch proclamation of remorse&comma; in court&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Coleman then 27&comma;  was arrested on December 21&comma; 2014&comma; in Bucksport&comma; Maine and has been held without bail since then&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-129988" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;christina-sargent-and-destiny-sargent1&period;png" alt&equals;"christina-sargent-and-destiny-sargent1" width&equals;"570" height&equals;"542" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Christina Sargent and daughter Destiny Sargent at a home in Garland&period; Keith Coleman was also convicted of assaulting  Destiny<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-129999" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;keith-coleman-and-christina-sargent1&period;png" alt&equals;"Keith Coleman and Christina Sargent1&period;png" width&equals;"813" height&equals;"568" &sol;><strong>Keith Coleman &lbrack;left&rsqb; told police them that he killed his girlfriend Christina Sargent&&num;8217&semi;s and her two children<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">Coleman who received the maximum penalty for the triple homicide and sexual assault of a minor only avoided the death penalty because Maine is one of 19 states without it&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Jurors in November heard a taped confession from Coleman&comma; who was arrested a day after the bodies were discovered&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;I did it&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Coleman said through sobs&period; &&num;8216&semi;I did it&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to say that word but I did it&period; I killed my girl&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Then he clarified he killed the children as well&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Coleman told the judge Thursday that he&&num;8217&semi;s been painted as a &&num;8216&semi;monster&&num;8217&semi; but that he&&num;8217&semi;s remorseful&period; He said he felt responsible for the deaths&comma; even though he avoided saying he killed the victims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-129998" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;duwayne-coke-and-destiny-sargent1&period;png" alt&equals;"duwayne-coke-and-destiny-sargent1" width&equals;"807" height&equals;"584" &sol;><strong>Police Keith Coleman confessed that he chased down and strangled Duwayne Coke &lbrack;left&rsqb; and Destiny Sargent&&num;8217&semi;s  because they&&num;8217&semi;d witnessed their mother&&num;8217&semi;s death&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8216&semi;I just hope you have mercy on me&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he told the judge&comma; according to WLBZ-TV&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Coleman was convicted of three counts of murder and one count of sexual assault&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He received a 20-year sentence for sexually assaulting Sargent&&num;8217&semi;s daughter&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In December 2014&comma; police found the three bodies of inside the family&&num;8217&semi;s trailer by Penobscot County sheriff&&num;8217&semi;s deputies&comma; who had been alerted by worried relatives&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A taped confession from Coleman was played for jurors&comma; who was arrested a day after the bodies were found&period; &&num;8216&semi;I did it&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to say that word but I did it&period; I killed my girl&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said through sobs&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Then he admitted that he also killed Sargent&&num;8217&semi;s 10-year-old son Duwayne Coke&comma; 10&comma; and his 8-year-old sister&comma; Destiny Sargent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-129994" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;keith-coleman3&period;png" alt&equals;"keith-coleman3" width&equals;"786" height&equals;"424" &sol;><strong>In mitigation Keith Coleman &lbrack;white shirt&rsqb; told the court that he was not the &&num;8216&semi;monster&&num;8217&semi; they&&num;8217&semi;d heard and that he is full of remorse for his crimes <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">Coleman was convicted of three counts of murder and one count of sexual assault&period; He received a 20-year sentence for sexually assaulting Sargent&&num;8217&semi;s daughter<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Coleman&&num;8217&semi;s ex-girlfriend Amanda Ellis&comma; 31&comma; told the <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bangordailynews&period;com&sol;slideshow&sol;police-investigate-suspicious-deaths-of-garland-woman-children-seek-man-who-lived-with-them&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow">Bangor Daily News<&sol;a> that he and Sargent&comma; who was her cousin&comma; had been together since January 2012&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Ellis&comma; who has a three-year-old with defendant&comma; described Coleman&comma; whom she met in 2007&comma; as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;aggressive and very manipulative&period;” She also mentioned that he had a history of domestic violence  dating back to when she lived with him&period; Coleman tried to strangle her on more than one occasion and threatened her with a knife at least twice&period; She reported the incidents to police&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-130001" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;keith-coleman-killed-christina-sargent-and-her-two-children-inside-their-trailer-home-in-garland12&period;jpg" alt&equals;"TripleMurder122114 016&period;JPG" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"383" &sol;><strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Worried relatives alerted Penobscot County sheriff&&num;8217&semi;s deputies who found the three bodies of inside the family&&num;8217&semi;s home &lbrack;photo&rsqb;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-130000" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;keith-coleman-killed-christina-sargent-and-her-two-children-inside-their-trailer-home-in-garland2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"TripleMurder122114 021&period;JPG" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"398" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Sheriff&&num;8217&semi;s deputies remove bodies of the three victims from the family&&num;8217&semi;s trailer home in Garland&comma; Maine on Dec 20&comma; 2014<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Coleman&&num;8217&semi;s criminal record includes two arrests in 2011 and 2013 on outstanding warrants&comma; and a misdemeanor conviction in October 2011 for growing marijuana&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He was found guilty of all charges in the slaying of Christina Sargent and her two children November 2016&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;After the verdict was announced&comma; Mary Worster told<a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;foxbangor&period;com&sol;news&sol;item&sol;17392-family-members-react-to-guilty-verdicts-in-triple-murder-trial" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow"> WVII-TV <&sol;a>that her daughter &&num;8216&semi;was looking for love&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Chrissy was looking for love&period; And she thought Keith was it&period; So he took that love and he killed her with it&comma; and my grandkids&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Keith Coleman&&num;8217&semi;s attorneys have indicated that they intend to appeal the verdict to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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