Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds said the hate crime charge stemmed from the fact that authorities believe Martinez burned the flag because of “what it represents as far as sexual orientation.” The harsh sentence is mostly due to the hate crime charge, which is a class D felony. He was sentenced on Wednesday to 16 years behind bars. Martinez admitted to burning the flag and was found guilty last month.
A gay ‘Christian church’ has helped prosecutors jail a 30 year old man named Adolfo Martinez to 16 years for stealing a gay flag from the heretical “Ames United Church of Christ” and setting it on fire and the story of this gross miscarriage of justice is barely to be found on mainstream media.