Necrophiliac belatedly lands in prison

Four years after he pleaded guilty to the act, Donald Luis Cooper is now in prison for having sex with the corpse of a 4-year-old girl.

In February 2003, Cooper, 32, and his girlfriend, Chaunee Marie Helm, 30, were working for All-County Transportation, driving bodies from Victor Valley Community Hospital to the county morgue in San Bernardino.

Security cameras in the morgue captured Cooper sexually assaulting the body of Robyn Gillett, an Adelanto girl who had died of the flu. Helm served as a lookout.

But Cooper was not charged with necrophilia because it wasn’t illegal at the time. He pleaded guilty to mutilating grave remains and received a suspended two-year prison sentence.

If he kept his nose clean for the five years of his probation, he wouldn’t have to serve any additional jail time beyond the time he spent waiting for trial.

But it didn’t work out that way...  (source

Wasn't illegal at the time? What were they waiting for, an act of [sexual] Congress?

Article goes on to describe "deplorable living conditions" yadda yadda yadda. Perhaps they were expecting this sort of fellow to keep a Martha Stewart-y good home, safe for kids, puppies, and the sunbeams Jesus wants you for.