Posted on 09/23/2007 2:09:08 PM PDT by lowbridge
Man sentenced for raping girl
By BRIAN SCHEID
A 30-year-old illegal immigrant was sentenced to at least five years in state prison in Bucks County court Friday, five months after he admitted to repeatedly raping an adolescent girl.
Carlos Salustio, a Mexican immigrant who was living illegally in Warminster, pleaded guilty in April to rape of a child and related charges for as many as 25 sexual incidents with the girl over a two-year period, starting when the girl was 10.
In a tearful speech in front of Judge Albert Cepparulo, the girl, who is now 13, said her family was “torn apart” after Salustio was arrested in December. The victim has been in custody of the county’s Children and Youth agency and separated from her mother since the arrest. Her mother has denied that Salustio ever raped her daughter. The mother and daughter sat on opposite sides of the courtroom Friday.
The victim said she was scared to report Salustio’s abuse, but felt she had to since she did not want him to sexually assault another girl.
“I don’t want another girl to go through what I went through and I don’t want him to do this again,” the victim said in court between sobs. “I hope he never touches another girl again.”
Cepparulo congratulated the victim for reporting the sex crime to police.
“We think that you are very brave,” Cepparulo said. “You are a strong young lady.”
Dressed in a yellow prison jumpsuit, Salustio avoided eye contact with the victim throughout most of Friday’s sentencing. He looked at her only during an apology he made in broken English.
“I want to apologize ... for what I did,” he said. “I want to say I’m sorry for everything.”
He then apologized to his parents, who attended the sentencing.
“I’ve brought shame to them,” he said. “I want to apologize to every single person in this courthouse. I swear to God it’s not going to happen again with anybody.”
Cepparulo sentenced Salustio to no fewer than five years and no more than 20 in state prison, ordered him to pay court costs, attend sexual offender treatment throughout his time in jail and have no contact with the victim. Cepparulo, who ruled Salustio was a “sexually violent predator,” said Salustio would also be deported once he is released from prison.
Unless they put him in solitary, he won’t last the five years.
“Her mother has denied that Salustio ever raped her daughter”
Even after he admitted it?
I'll buy drinks and dinner for the winner.
Hopefully the new companions he meets in prison will see to it that this is the case ...
Has anyone tried to start a database of criminal acts commited by illegal aliens? murders, rapes, drunk driving incidents that result in deaths etc?
The 'mother' ought to be in jail too. Is she illegal? Deport her sorry butt.
Man sentenced for raping girl (Illegal Alien Gets Only 5-20 For Raping 10 Yr Old Untill She Was 12)...
any comment from jorge bush....fat ted kennedy...turbin durbin or all the other dopes that want the dream act passed???
There are several. It's hard to catch them all in the news, too many every day.
many listed here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1900241/posts
Aren't they illegal aliens, too?
The mother deserves 5-20. The rapist deserves a long slow agonizing death over a slow flame.
Poor kid. Makes me sick.
any comment from jorge bush....fat ted kennedy...turbin durbin or all the other dopes that want the dream act passed???No time for that. Too busy keeping up with the hard work of Johnny Sutton (he's a "personal friend" of the president!) locking up all those insolent Border Patrol Agents who have the audacity to actually try to enforce the law.
“Carlos Salustio, a Mexican immigrant who was living illegally..”
People on immigrant status are here legally. I must assume that Carlos was an illegal alien and not an immigrant.
Even after he admitted it?
Yes. It is very common in these cases for the mother of the child to be in total denial over what the boyfriend (it's almost never the biological father) is doing to her daughter.
The woman, you see, is so invested in keeping the man (not being bound to him by marriage) that she will cheerfully sacrifice her own daughter to keep him.
One of the nasty pieces of fallout from women living with men without benefit of a marriage license.
Such men are also far more likely to abuse and kill the woman's children -- which interestingly enough is what many male animals do, in order to maximize their own genetic potential with a new mate. Without a moral code, humans degenerate into wild animals.
Something like CHILD RAPIST Victim 10 yr old.
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