Pair sent to prison for attack on crossing guard

Because of the pain he still endures, Dano McKay thinks every day about the man who attacked him as he tried to help two young girls cross a street.

“My whole life has been disrupted,” the 65-year-old said during the sentencing of Adam Kondrat and Sabrina Torres, who were sent to prison Tuesday for their roles in the brutal attack on the school crossing guard. “I have headaches every day. … I’ve spent so much time in the hospital already. I don’t have much time left. This is pathetic.”

McKay described falling to the ground and being beaten and kicked by Kondrat in a school zone in October near Gehring Elementary School, at Maryland Parkway near Silverado Ranch Boulevard.

McKay told District Judge Michael Villani that he still has trouble turning his neck and “my left arm has turned into spaghetti.”

The judge ordered Kondrat to serve three to 10 years in prison while his girlfriend, Torres, was sentenced to one to three years behind bars.

Kondrat was driving about 50 mph and cutting off other vehicles in the school zone when McKay stepped in front of the car and forced Kondrat to stop, according to his arrest report.

Kondrat, 21, jumped out of his car and attacked McKay, kicking and punching him until he fell to the ground and dropped his stop sign, a witness told police.

Torres, 23, then picked up the stop sign and handed it to Kondrat, witnesses told police. Torres told the judge Tuesday that she meant to pull the sign away from the scene of the attack, but Villani didn’t believe her.

Kondrat looked like he was going to hit McKay with the sign when a retired police sergeant intervened, according to witnesses.

Prosecutor Giancarlo Pesci said Kondrat was “belligerent” even after he was arrested, kicking a Metro officer.

“He’s shown a clear indication that he’s a violent, violent individual,” Pesci said. “This is an individual who is out of control.”

Villani called the attack “so outrageous, so unacceptable.”

Last month, Kondrat pleaded guilty to two counts of battery with substantial bodily harm and one count of battery on a protected person. Torres pleaded guilty to one count of battery with substantial bodily harm.

Kondrat’s lawyer, Marty Hart, said “he’s never blamed anyone but himself. … He comes across to me as someone who is remorseful for what happened, not that he got caught.”

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