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June 23rd, 2005, 10:23 GMT

Mel Gibson Stalker Got 3 Years Behind Bars

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Zack Sinclair, Mel Gibson stalker, was sentenced Wednesday to a maximum of three years in California state prison and recommended for psychiatric treatment as part of his prison term.

Sinclair became obsessed with Mel Gibson after his movie "The Passion of the Christ" and sent him 12 letters, approached Gibson in the church to ask him to pray and turned up at Gibson's Malibu mansion.

Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Debra Archuleta said, per City News Service, that Sinclair has "an ongoing problem that we are going to try to deal with head-on," and she hoped the forced hospitalization would help him "get back on a right path."

Mel Gibson was not in court when the sentence was written.

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Comment #1 by: afton on 03 Apr 2008, 05:44 UTC reply to this comment

Cases such as this is why we need better laws that are toupher on stalkers, not just for celebrities, but for everyone. Many of these people who commit these type of crimes suffer from some sort of mental disorder and need treatment in order to get over there obsessions.


Comment #2 by: anon on 02 Jul 2011, 19:07 UTC reply to this comment

How come this guy gets 3 years, but celebrities that also do bad things like drunk driving, get into fights, take drugs, etc. get off more easily than the average person?

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