Four-year term in teen's rape

Published August 3 2007

An illegal immigrant from Ecuador will serve four years in prison for raping a 14-year-old girl last March during an afternoon of drinking in his parents' Chickahominy home.

Judge Robert Devlin also sentenced William Pacheco, 20, of 34 Harold St., to six years of special parole, but Pacheco will likely be deported after serving his prison term, Assistant State's Attorney Paul Ferencek said.

"Although the victim's family would have preferred more jail, I think the sentence is ultimately fair, though the victim will have to live with this incident for the rest of her life," Ferencek said.

In May, Pacheco pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor in connection with the March 22 attack last year.

Attempts to reach Pacheco's attorney, public defender Susan Hankins, were unsuccessful.

Pacheco and two others were arrested just days after the attack, in which Ferencek said Pacheco gave the girl alcohol, and after she became drunk, took her into his parents' bedroom and raped and sodomized her.

Authorities said the two other defendants, a 15-year-old Greenwich boy and a 16-year-old Port Chester, N.Y., boy, also raped the girl.

The two other defendants, whose names were withheld because of their ages, have pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor.

Defense attorney Lindy Urso, who represents the 15-year-old Greenwich boy, expects his client to go to trial in late September.

"My client continues to steadfastly maintain his innocence," Urso said.

-- Martin B. Cassidy

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