Posted on 03/12/2009 8:07:55 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
CORPUS CHRISTI — A 25-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to 70 years in prison for molesting his former fiancee’s 5-year-old daughter.
Charles Cueva was found guilty last week of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child by sexual contact.
The jury on Monday sentenced him to two 70-year sentences and a 15-year sentence along with $30,000 in fines. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos decided the prison terms would run concurrently. Prosecutors had argued for consecutive sentences , which would have meant 155 years in prison.
Cueva, whose attorneys filed a notice of appeal, must serve 30 years before he is eligible for parole.
Man receives 70 years for molesting girl, 5
Cueva was convicted of sexually assaulting his former fiance's daughter
Charles Cueva, 25, was sentenced to 70 years in prison for molesting his former fiancee’s 5-year-old daughter.
Finally a judge getting tough on these perverts.
Must serve 30 of 70 years? I didn’t know Texas had such liberal parole laws.
Why waste any time with this cretin in jail... string the SOB up and be done with it.
Should have just taken him outside, and taken him OUT.
Low-life baseborn.
Unfortunately, pedophiles never get over their addiction.
With any luck he won't survive more than a few years in prison. Child molesters have a high probability of getting bumped off by the more "principled" prisoners. There are some crimes so immoral they gag a maggot.
Guy looks like Frankenstein’s Monster.
Now I get to pay for the asshats room and board
Well, you know how it is. Some guys just have problems finding girls they can relate to as intellectual equals.
Yeah, but those 30 years will almost certainly be in protective custody (23 hours a day alone in his cell) because if they put him in “general population” he’d be killed within a week. 30 years of solitary confinement will feel like at least 70 years to this creep.
not quite:
“District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos decided the prison terms would run concurrently. Prosecutors had argued for consecutive sentences.”
But still not bad compared to some sentences
On a separate but related note: As for whether his sentence should be consecutive or concurrent, I’ve always believed that a sentence should only be allowed to run concurrent if the crimes were committed in a single act. If there were separate acts involved in a conviction (anyone’s conviction) they should be required to serve them consecutively.
Unless he is in the SOTP program!!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Some of them hardly get a whiff of prison.
30 years is liberal? Anyway that's the minimum. He could serve more.
I think of the guy in NH (or was it VT) who got 30 day ... so this isn’t bad, but not what the prosecutors wanted or jury who set the penalty ... that would ahve been@ 155 years. This way he can get out in his mid-50s if fellow inmates don’t ‘off’ him ... they don’t like child molesters in the prisons.
There isn’t a grave deep enough for this sonofabitch.
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