Posted on 09/06/2010 11:59:31 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
A 23-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was living in Leesburg will spend the next 35 years in prison for brutally raping his 4-year-old family member.
“No child anywhere in the world should ever be subjected to this sort of crime,” Judge Burke McCahill told Carlos M. Ruano just before sentencing him in a Loudoun courtroom Aug. 27.
Ruano pleaded guilty March 22 to raping a victim younger than 13, a Class 2 felony. The rape occurred Nov. 29, 2009.
In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors dropped a June 1, 2009 sodomy charge in the case, which also involved the 4-year-old child.
He faced a maximum sentence of life in prison.
However, state sentencing guidelines recommended that McCahill sentence Ruano to eight to 17 years in prison.
Loudoun County Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney GiGi Lawless urged the judge to deviate above those guidelines because of the nature of the crime.
Lawless described how Ruano initiated sexual encounters with the toddler about 12 to 13 times and then had intercourse with her four different times.
She said the victim was “still almost a baby” during the Nov. 29, 2009, rape Ruano was indicted for, which included using a metal fishnet as a weapon against her.
The fishnet was one used to scoop fish out of a tank, and Ruano repeatedly hit the 4-year-old with it during the rapes, Lawless said.
When the girl would complain of pain, Ruano would stop and play with her for awhile before continuing, Lawless said.
“This is the person this defendant is,” Lawless said. “He is a child rapist.”
Earlier in her argument, Lawless said Ruano came into the country illegally, first residing in California, then moving in with a family member, the toddler’s mother, in Leesburg.
In a psychiatric evaluation, Ruano admitted to having sexual thoughts about the 4-year-old well before he acted on them, Lawless said.
Ruano’s attorney, Public Defender Kelly King, asked McCahill to sentence her client within the guidelines.
King said Ruano was sexually assaulted for years by his stepfather.
“He’s never been taught what an appropriate relationship is,” she said.
King also credited Ruano for being honest during his psychiatric evaluation, making him someone who could be rehabilitated and would be a low risk of reoffending once his prison sentence was over.
Ruano asked McCahill to give him a chance to get out of prison and get professional help.
“I want you to know that I recognize what I have done,” Ruano said in Spanish through an interpreter. “I am willing to pay.”
In the end, McCahill sentenced Ruano to 60 years in prison with all but 35 suspended. Indefinite probation will follow his release, and Ruano will be turned over to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for possible deportation. He will also be required to register as a sex offender.
fyi
Jack Handy said it best: “I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend”.
It’s ok because he was abused himself.
Great excuse a-hole.
The death penalty for trash like this. Put them out of their misery.
I would imagine the perp in this case has absolutely no idea about what is going to happen.
I hope his fellow inmates make his 35 years a living hell. Even hardened criminals are repulsed by this sort of crime.
Only way it will be served is if the Code is followed in prison.
Pass out pamphlets to all the inmates explaining what he did.
Most, if not all prisons, segregate sex offenders. Your local sex offender registry is filled with the scum of the earth, who survived quite well, having served time.
No doubt.
“King said Ruano was sexually assaulted for years by his stepfather.
“He’s never been taught what an appropriate relationship is,” she said. “
Cripes! Give me a flippin’ break! Poor misunderstood ILLEGAL alien! Hang the barbarian.
These El Salvadorans are causing a bunch of problems here!
Chandra Levy’s murder is an illegal El Salvadoran alien:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190905/posts
Saturday 7/10/10
El Financiero (Mexico City) 7/9/10
US extends TPS for Salvadorans
The US extended Temporary Protection Status (TPS) for 217,000 citizens of El Salvador, permitting them to legally work in the country until March 2012. The announcement, published Friday in the Federal Register permits the beneficiaries to reapply for the extension within the following 60 days by paying a fee of $450. The extension does not apply to Salvadorans who entered the US after 13 February 2001. TPS was extended to thousands of Salvadorans for the first time in 2001 after the disastrous earthquakes that occurred in their country that year.
La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 8/31/10
El Salvador : one small but violent country
The murder of two men on Tuesday morning brought this small country’s homicide tally up to 330 for the month and to 2,792 for this year. The month’s daily killing average reached eleven.
El Salvador.com (San Salvador, El Salvador) 7/28/10
Thousands of Salvadoran deportees had criminal records
El Salvador’s Vice Minister for Salvadorans Abroad, Juan Jose Garcia, said that there was a 5% drop in the number of Salvadorans deported back to their country in June of this year in comparison with the equivalent month of 2009. However, the number of deportees returning by land increased 23% overall last year. Of the 11,481 Salvadorans deported from the United States so far this year, 4,590 had committed one or more crimes in the United States.
http://www.elsalvador.com/mwedh/nota/nota_completa.asp?idCat=15873&idArt=5005713
[snip]In 1990, Salvadorans were among the first group declared eligible for TPS. Although TPS ended in 1992, Salvadorans were allowed to stay under deferred-enforced-departure (DED), a status that maintained temporary residence and work privileges. Once DED status ended, in 1996, Salvadorans were able to apply for political asylum.
Salvadorans again were eligible for TPS after the country’s 2001 earthquake, and their TPS has been renewed multiple times, most recently in 2006; TPS is presently set to expire on March 9, 2009. According to the Embassy of El Salvador in the United States, 234,000 Salvadorans reregistered for TPS in 2006......the number of unauthorized Salvadorans residing in the United States continues to rise. In 1996, INS estimated that there were 335,000 unauthorized Salvadorans residing in the United States.
The number of unauthorized Salvadorans living in the United States is not readily available or easily verified. However, there may be as many as 400,000 unauthorized Salvadorans currently residing in the United States based on estimates from US government data. Typically, they are from rural households, and they find employment in the low-wage service sector and in construction.
According to data from the 2000 census, the foreign born from El Salvador have the lowest high school graduation rate (34.8 percent) among Central Americans, and are the least like among Central Americans age 25 and older to hold a bachelor’s degree (4.9 percent).
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=636
The Commonwealth doesn’t need to spend the thousands of dollars to keep the guy in prison for 35 years. There’s a very simple .38-caliber solution for this, applied to the back of the head. Or, hell, rope’s cheaper than a revolver, and there’s plenty of trees in Loudoun County. Then bury him under the tree and count him as a carbon offset courtesy of El Salvador. (Either way, bill the government of El Salvador for all expenses involved.)
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