Inmates May Have Settled Score For Beaten Grandma

On December 8, 2008 Sandy Vinge, now in her mid-70’s, was abducted from her home in La Mesa by two men posing as vacuum salesmen, robbed, beaten and stuffed in the back of a car.

Jeffrey Nelson and Luis Osborne drove Vinge around for 26 hours as they continued beating her. At one point she thought that she was going to die, she might have done had it not been for the Sheriff’s deputy who pulled over her car for a traffic violation.

Nelson and Osborne were convicted and sentenced with little knowledge of what was to follow. It seemed the prison population held the two men in the same contempt that is generally reserved for people who commit crimes against children.

Vinge told NBC what she had heard from a “reliable source”:

They have been beaten up three times, and put in the infirmary, the inmates don’t like them.

While Vinge does not encourage the violence, she has noted that she is appreciative of those who have inflicted it, adding:

That’s awful to say. But that’s the way I feel, I can’t help it.

NBC could not confirm whether Nelson had been assaulted, but the warden for Donovan State Prison said that Osborne had been attacked, at least once, severely enough to require medical attention – and that he is now being held in a single cell in the Administration Segregation Unit.