Three Guatemalans get seven years in gang rape case

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Three migrant farmworkers facing life in prison opted to plead no contest Tuesday to charges they kidnapped an Immokalee teenager 1-1/2 years ago and then gang-raped her while her husband and baby slept in a trailer just yards away.

The plea bargain ensures the woman won’t have to testify, see the men again or be portrayed as a prostitute — and that the men won’t face the possibility of life in prison. René Perez Garcia, 23, Mario Lopez Luis, 20, and Alvarado Perez Luis, 21, were sentenced to seven years in a state prison and then will be deported to Guatemala.

There, they will be free men — after being behind bars since their Oct. 1, 2005, arrest.

“It was too painful for her to go back through all those memories,â€