A black student who was just 13-years-old when he sexually assaulted and strangled his white teacher to death has been sentenced to 85 years in jail

Brian Wonsom, now 15, killed Hannah Wheeling, 65, at Cheltenham Youth Facility, Maryland. As he took a test with Wheeling on February 17, 2010, he beat and strangled her. When she was dead, he sexually assaulted her. The teacher's naked body was found in the snow after Wonsom crushed her skull with a cinder block and choked her with a cord. At his hearing, he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and attempted first-degree rape. At the hearing, Wonsom also pleaded guilty to trying to kill his neighbor by stabbing her as she slept in 2009. Victim Harriet Peprah survived multiple stab wounds.