DC Woman Sentenced For Killing Boyfriend While High On 'Love Boat'

WASHINGTON, DC — A DC woman was sentenced to ten years in prison for voluntary manslaughter after she fatally beat her boyfriend with a baseball bat while she was high on the street drug "Love Boat," U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu announced.

Thomasine Bennett, 68, pled guilty in July to a charge of voluntary manslaughter of Walter M. Clark, 63. The plea agreement called for an agreed-upon sentence of ten years in prison.

On the afternoon of Feb. 17, police were called to investigate trouble at an apartment in the 700 block of 21st Street NE. Bennett told police officers that her boyfriend was in the back of her apartment. Investigators quoted Bennett saying that she beat Clark with a baseball bat over the last day and a half and that Clark made her smoke "Love Boat" the previous night.

Officers found Clark unconscious and unresponsive inside a hallway closet with multiple bruises to the body, court documents said. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy later determined he died from multiple blunt force trauma.

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According to online reports, Love Boat is marijuana dipped in a toxic chemical known to cause severe brain damage and even death.

Bennett will be placed on five years of supervised release after her sentence, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu announced.

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