Posted on 09/16/2014 12:11:05 PM PDT by rey
A Santa Rosa man convicted for a second time in a series of gang rapes was again sentenced Tuesday to 75 years to life in prison.
Rogelio Carlos-Zaragoza, 29, was convicted of abducting women in Santa Rosa in 2006 and 2009 and driving two of them to a remote Windsor vineyard, where he raped them with up to three other men.
He was caught with his older brother, Leonel Carlos-Zaragoza, after grabbing an 18-year-old victim at knifepoint along Dutton Avenue and getting in a chase with CHP officers on Highway 101.
Both men were convicted in 2010. The brother is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence.
But Rogelio Carlos-Zaragoza was granted a new trial after an appeals court found jurors did not receive proper instructions before deliberating.
However, the second panel last month returned the same verdict. Carlos-Zaragoza was found guilty of five counts including rape in concert and kidnapping for the purposes of rape.
In handing down the punishment, Judge Rene Chouteau said he was struck by Carlos-Zaragoza’s unwillingness to accept blame for the crimes. Carlos-Zaragoza maintained the sex was consensual despite evidence the women were beaten and raped by multiple men, Chouteau said.
“I’m surprised you’re still saying it,” Chouteau told Carlos-Zaragoza through a Spanish interpreter. “What you have to realize here is that what you’ve done is a terrible thing for these three women.”
That seems like a harsh sentence - what’d he do, anyway?
There’s an easy out.
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Just declare that he’s a muzzie.
Strange headline.
You’ll noticed he walked on the last conviction.,
Sometimes I don’t think anyone actually thinks about the headlines they write.
Police: Crack found in man’s buttocks
Chouteau told Carlos-Zaragoza through a Spanish interpreter. “What you have to realize here is that what you’ve done is a terrible thing for these three women.”
ATOMIC... Duuuugh!...
The judge should be SLAPPED for being so “NICE”...
Was the sentence that harsh because he did not have a rape license?
Why are we going to house this thug when we’ve got good rope?
That’s what happens when you rape without having a rape license
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In California kidnap and rape will get you more time in prison than murder in many cases.
I hope everyone understands that I was commenting on the headline
as if “75 years in rapes” was his sentence.
“Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony. It’s an act of love. “
JEB Arbusto
Hey Paul Payne, where did you attend go in again schools? /s
“what’d he do, anyway?”
He abducted women, imprisoned them, tortured them, and then gang raped them with friends and relatives. Quality.
He needs it cut off.
Sounds like “Rape,Rape”.
The guy is getting 75 years of rapes? Wow, never heard of such a sentence being handed out.
Another illegal? Or just a hard-working immigrant that never bothered to learn the language of his host country (or worse ... born in America, and not knowing how to speak the language)?
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