Oak Ridge death row murderer pleads guilty to raping 2 children, DA says
Sean Finnegan was sentenced to another 50 years in prison, which will coincide with his death penalty sentence.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Sean Finnegan, the man on death row for a grisly Oak Ridge murder, has pleaded guilty to raping a child and sexually exploiting several others. He was sentenced to another 50 years in prison, which will coincide with his death penalty sentence.
In total, Finnegan pleaded guilty to raping two Oak Ridge children in 2019 and 13 counts of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor.
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Finnegan was supposed to head to trial Monday morning before his plea. That trial would have followed his August 2024 trial, where he was convicted of 11 counts in the murder of Jennifer Paxton. Finnegan stored Paxton’s body in a freezer in his apartment, and since then he’s been housed at Tennessee’s Riverbend Maximum Security Prison.
In each case, Finnegan had a co-defendant: Rebecca Dishman. She earlier entered a plea deal in the case of Paxton’s murder and the case of raping the children.
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