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Three years, four months and a day after Taylor Walker was raped in a Vanderbilt University parking garage, she's finally seen justice.

In a rescheduled sentencing hearing Thursday, Judge Randall Wyatt heard three final testimonies before sentencing Tyrone Batts to the maximum 36 years for his crimes.

Batts was found guilty in April of two counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of robbery after Walker took the witness stand and described for 35 minutes the assault by her attacker.

The court first heard Thursday from the state's last witness, another woman who described a traumatic incident with Batts in August 2012. In broken English, the woman, whose first language is Spanish, said she came home from work late one night and
encountered Batts, who she said put a gun to her head and pulled her into a dark space.

"I thought he wanted my money or cell phone, and I gave it to him and he pushed that away,' she said.

" 'No, I don't want that'," she said Batts told her. "He pushed me on the ground, where it is dark behind my apartment. He took his pants off."

The woman told Batts her brother was in the car and coming for her, and she said he left her and ran away, but now she can't sleep at night thinking about what happened to her.

The defense then called Sharon Batts, Batts' mother, who talked of her son as a young boy who sang in the church choir, was her protector, an athlete and a youth abandoned by his father.

Defense attorney Jonathan Wing showed pictures of 6-year-old Batts in a baseball uniform. Then, Sharon Batts described a change in her son in 2011, when she said he began to believe people were talking to him through the television and that others were
out to get him.

Next to be called by the defense was Pamela Auble, a psychologist who has evaluated Batts on multiple occasions since 2012 and reviewed his medical records dating back to 2011.

https://www.tennessean.com/gcdn/-mm-/d74f8ec2168a9f6cadf51e9ac39a5ea4623eda37/c=28-0-373-460/local/-/media/2015/06/11/Nashville/B9317698116Z.1_20150611202626_000_G97B27FAU.1-0.jpg?width=300&height=400&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2015/06/11/rape-victim-sees-attacker-sentenced-years/71097338/

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