To a prosecutor, Ashley Reeves is nothing short of a miracle. More than a year ago, the teenager was found in the woods of a city park, where an assailant had left her for dead after snapping her neck. She couldn't move. Her breathing was shallow, her eyes glassy. On Friday, after months of grueling rehab learning how to swallow, talk and move her head and arms again, the 18-year-old Reeves watched the man who caused her ordeal get punished.
Samson Shelton, 27, offered no apologies to Reeves in pleading guilty to one count of attempted first-degree ******. As part of the deal he made with prosecutors, he immediately was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
By law, he'll have to serve 85 percent of his sentence _ about 17 years _ before being eligible for parole.
